Applevariety
Toyo
Also known as Orient
Orient
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; sweet and mildly tart. Picked in late October.
Origin · Aomori Prefecture, Japan
Released 1935
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Texture
- medium texture
- Flavour
- moderately sweet, subacid, perfumed
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed pink, speckled and striped crimsonBackground colour pale greenish yellow
- Flesh
- white, tinged green
- Shape
- tall, truncate-conic, convex to concave
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 60-72 mmFruit height 58-71 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed on body, more prominently at eye
Origin & family
Where Toyo began
Recorded origin
Aomori Prefecture
Japan
- Released
- 1935
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- moderately sweet, subacid, perfumed
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed on body, more prominently at eye
- synonyms
- Orient
- parentage
- Red Delicious x Unknown
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- tall, truncate-conic, convex to concave
- fruit width
- 60-72 mm
- over colour
- flushed pink, speckled and striped crimson
- flesh colour
- white, tinged green
- fruit height
- 58-71 mm
- flesh texture
- medium texture
- ground colour
- pale greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.