Applevariety
Verdona
A cooking and dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-green skin, conical in shape; mildly tart and crisp. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour sometimes a little dull pinkish brown flushSkin texture smooth, thick, toughBackground colour green sometimes mottled yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- tall, conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 55-62 mmFruit height 54-59 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and base to apexRusset pattern sometimes russet at base, white dots
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and base to apex
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- tall, conic, convex
- fruit width
- 55-62 mm
- over colour
- sometimes a little dull pinkish brown flush
- russet type
- sometimes russet at base, white dots
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 54-59 mm
- skin texture
- smooth, thick, tough
- flesh texture
- crisp
- ground colour
- green sometimes mottled yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.