Applevariety
Tordai Piros Kalvil
A cooking and dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; sweet and soft. Picked in mid-August.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- sweet
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed pinkish red, scarcely striped, numerous pinkish red dotsSkin texture slightly greasy, thick toughBackground colour pale yellowish green
- Flesh
- pale cream
- Shape
- intermediate to tall, conic to rectangular, convex to straight, slightly asymmetric
- Size
- small to mediumFruit width 39-60 mmFruit height 45-57 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on body, generally two prominent ribs
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- tree
- upright
- flavour
- sweet
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body, generally two prominent ribs
- fruit size
- small to medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate to tall, conic to rectangular, convex to straight, slightly asymmetric
- fruit width
- 39-60 mm
- over colour
- flushed pinkish red, scarcely striped, numerous pinkish red dots
- flesh colour
- pale cream
- fruit height
- 45-57 mm
- skin texture
- slightly greasy, thick tough
- flesh texture
- soft, coarse
- ground colour
- pale yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.