Applevariety
Violetta
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round in shape; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- subacid, slightly sweet
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed and streaked deep purplish redBackground colour pale greenish yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white, browns quickly
- Shape
- tall to intermediate, conic to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 61-74 mmFruit height 58-63 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eye and sometimes on bodyRusset pattern sometimes russet at base and russet netting and specks
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, slightly sweet
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye and sometimes on body
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- tall to intermediate, conic to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 61-74 mm
- over colour
- flushed and streaked deep purplish red
- russet type
- sometimes russet at base and russet netting and specks
- flesh colour
- creamy white, browns quickly
- fruit height
- 58-63 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, fine
- ground colour
- pale greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.