Applevariety
Webster
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin, round-conical in shape, raised in 1912 and introduced in 1938; tart and soft. Picked in early October.
Origin · New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA
Released 1938
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- slightly acid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour broad orange and red stripesSkin texture very greasyBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 82-91 mmFruit height 70-80 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern russet at base
Origin & family
Where Webster began
Recorded origin
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA
United States
- Released
- 1938
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- slightly acid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- parentage
- Ben Davies X Jonathan x Ben Davies X Jonathan
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 82-91 mm
- over colour
- broad orange and red stripes
- russet type
- russet at base
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 70-80 mm
- skin texture
- very greasy
- flesh texture
- soft, coarse
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.