Applevariety
Tropical Beauty
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; firm. Picked in early October.
Origin · Maidstone, South Africa
Released 1958
Taste & texture
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- sweetish
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed reddish orange, streaked & flecked carmineSkin texture a little stickyBackground colour greenish gold streaked green
- Flesh
- yellowish white, green coreline and veins
- Shape
- variable, intermediate, flat or tall, rectangular, base often narrower than apex, convex
- Size
- medium
- Appearance
- Surface ridges strongly ribbed at apex and on bodyRusset pattern occasional russet, sometimes a russet hairline
Origin & family
Where Tropical Beauty began
Recorded origin
Maidstone
South Africa
- Released
- 1958
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweetish
- ribbing
- strongly ribbed at apex and on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- variable, intermediate, flat or tall, rectangular, base often narrower than apex, convex
- over colour
- flushed reddish orange, streaked & flecked carmine
- russet type
- occasional russet, sometimes a russet hairline
- flesh colour
- yellowish white, green coreline and veins
- skin texture
- a little sticky
- flesh texture
- firm, rather coarse
- ground colour
- greenish gold streaked green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.