Applevariety
Verdese
A cooking apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; mildly tart and firm. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour brown flush and a few pale pink stripesSkin texture greasyBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- flat, intermediate or tall, rectangular to conic, convex to straight
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 58-76 mmFruit height 54-67 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at apex, slightly ribbed on bodyRusset pattern russet at base, a few dots
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at apex, slightly ribbed on body
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- flat, intermediate or tall, rectangular to conic, convex to straight
- fruit width
- 58-76 mm
- over colour
- brown flush and a few pale pink stripes
- russet type
- russet at base, a few dots
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- fruit height
- 54-67 mm
- skin texture
- greasy
- flesh texture
- firm, fine
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.