Topaz
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and whitish-yellow skin, oblong in shape; sweet and crisp. Picked in early October.
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Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- sweet
- Used for
- Dessert apple
Choose an apple for the combination of traits you enjoy, not sweetness or looks alone.
sensory study · Apples grown in the Drina Valley; consumer test in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Read the evidence
Different sensory attributes favored different cultivars. Topaz scored well for flavor and sourness, and Golden Delicious for appearance and sweetness, while the paper concludes that overall liking and juiciness did not differ significantly. The measured soluble-solids values also did not differ significantly among cultivars.
- Fruit tested
- Commercial maturity; stored at 2±1°C and 95% relative humidity, then 24 hours at room temperature before assessment
- Growing conditions
- MM106 rootstock, integrated production with minimum pesticide use
- Varieties compared
- Topaz, Florina, Goldstar, Golden Orange, Golden Delicious clone Reinders
- Use studied
- Fresh eating
- Published
- 2021
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour variable orange or bright scarlet flush, deeper stripesSkin texture rather greasyBackground colour pale yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish white
- Shape
- intermediate, conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 64 mmFruit height 51-57 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye, slightly on bodyRusset pattern a little russet at base
Origin & family
Topaz’s family
5 varieties · 4 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
Topaz
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye, slightly on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate, conic, convex
- fruit width
- 64 mm
- over colour
- variable orange or bright scarlet flush, deeper stripes
- russet type
- a little russet at base
- flesh colour
- yellowish white
- fruit height
- 51-57 mm
- skin texture
- rather greasy
- flesh texture
- crisp
- ground colour
- pale yellow