Applevariety
Tukor Alma
A cooking apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round in shape; mildly tart and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firmtender
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour brownish or orange-red flushBackground colour pale greenish yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular, convex, stellate ridges
- Size
- mediumFruit width 57-68 mmFruit height 47-59 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges sometimes slightly ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern many russet dots, russet at base
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- sometimes slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular, convex, stellate ridges
- fruit width
- 57-68 mm
- over colour
- brownish or orange-red flush
- russet type
- many russet dots, russet at base
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- fruit height
- 47-59 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, tender
- ground colour
- pale greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.