Applevariety
Tydeman's Michaelmas Red
Also known as Michaelmas Red
Michaelmas Red
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, raised in 1929; sweet, wine-like, juicy and soft. Picked in early September.
Origin · East Malling Research Station, Kent
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- soft
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- vinous
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 60.00 mmHeight 57.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Tydeman's Michaelmas Red began
Recorded origin
East Malling Research Station, Kent
Tydeman's Michaelmas Red’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Tydeman's Michaelmas Red
East Malling Research Station, Kent
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 60.00 mm
- height
- 57.00 mm
- firmness
- soft
- synonyms
- Michaelmas Red
- parentage
- McIntosh x Worcester Pearmain
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.