White Transparent
Also known as Alebastrovoe +87
Alebastrovoe · Belui nalif · Belui naliv · Bely naliv · Belya naliv · Belyi naliv nastoiascii · Biala prozracina · Biali Nalew · Bjalij naliv · Charlottentaler · Charlottenthaler · Clar Alb · de Revel · Durchsichtiger Sommerapfel · Feher Clar · Fransk Gylling · Franzosischer Sommerapfel · Grand Sultan · Grand-Sultan · Gustav I's Munapple · Hvit Astrakan · Hvit Klarann · Hvitt Klarapple · Inflancka · Inflanckie · Jaune Transparente · Jellow Transparent · Klarapfel · Klargylling · Kornapfel · Livlander Klarapfel · Naliv beli · Naliv Belui · Naliv skvoznoi · Naliv Transparent · Nalivnoe beloe · Nalivnoie Beloie · Nalivnoje Beloje · Naliw Bjelyi · Naliwjoje heloje · Oogstappel · Paperovka · Paperuvka · Papierdwka biala · Papierowka biela · Papierowka letnia · Papirovka · Papirowka · Pipierowka letnia · Pipka Alebastrovaya · Polnischer Papierapfel · Pomme d'Aout · Pomme d'Astracan Blanche · Pomme d'Or · Pomme de Revel · Pomme Transparente · Pomme Transparente Blanche · Pomme Transparente Jaune · Prozracinoe beloe · Prusvitne Zlute · Scharlottenthaler Golba · Sen Vitgul Astrakan · Sklenene zlute · Transparent Blanch · Transparent Blanche · Transparent de St. Leger · Transparent de Zurich · Transparent Jaune · Transparente · Transparente Blanche · Transparente Blanche de St. Leger · Transparente d'Astracan · Transparente d'Ete · Transparente de Moskovie · Transparente de Muscovie d'EtT · Transparente de Saint-Leger · Transparente de St. Leger · Transparente de Zurich · Transparente Jaune · Vinapple · Vitt Klarapple · Weisser Klarapfel · Weisser Transparent · Weisser Transparentapfel · Weisser Transparente · White Transparente · Yellow Transparent · Yellow Transparente
A cooking and dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; sweet, tart, mildly tart and crisp. Picked in late July.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- acidsubacid
- Firmness
- tender
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin texture slightly greasy, some bloom, toughBackground colour pale yellow or whitish
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- tall to intermediate, conic, convex, asymmetric
- Size
- mediumFruit width 64-66 mmFruit height 57-70 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges prominent ribs base to apexRusset pattern numerous pale dots
Origin & family
White Transparent’s family
10 varieties · 9 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
White Transparent
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- prominent ribs base to apex
- synonyms
- Alebastrovoe, Belui nalif, Belui naliv, Bely naliv, Belya naliv, Belyi naliv nastoiascii, Biala prozracina, Biali Nalew, Bjalij naliv, Charlottentaler, Charlottenthaler, Clar Alb, de Revel, Durchsichtiger Sommerapfel, Feher Clar, Fransk Gylling, Franzosischer Sommerapfel, Grand Sultan, Grand-Sultan, Gustav I's Munapple, Hvit Astrakan, Hvit Klarann, Hvitt Klarapple, Inflancka, Inflanckie, Jaune Transparente, Jellow Transparent, Klarapfel, Klargylling, Kornapfel, Livlander Klarapfel, Naliv beli, Naliv Belui, Naliv skvoznoi, Naliv Transparent, Nalivnoe beloe, Nalivnoie Beloie, Nalivnoje Beloje, Naliw Bjelyi, Naliwjoje heloje, Oogstappel, Paperovka, Paperuvka, Papierdwka biala, Papierowka biela, Papierowka letnia, Papirovka, Papirowka, Pipierowka letnia, Pipka Alebastrovaya, Polnischer Papierapfel, Pomme d'Aout, Pomme d'Astracan Blanche, Pomme d'Or, Pomme de Revel, Pomme Transparente, Pomme Transparente Blanche, Pomme Transparente Jaune, Prozracinoe beloe, Prusvitne Zlute, Scharlottenthaler Golba, Sen Vitgul Astrakan, Sklenene zlute, Transparent Blanch, Transparent Blanche, Transparent de St. Leger, Transparent de Zurich, Transparent Jaune, Transparente, Transparente Blanche, Transparente Blanche de St. Leger, Transparente d'Astracan, Transparente d'Ete, Transparente de Moskovie, Transparente de Muscovie d'EtT, Transparente de Saint-Leger, Transparente de St. Leger, Transparente de Zurich, Transparente Jaune, Vinapple, Vitt Klarapple, Weisser Klarapfel, Weisser Transparent, Weisser Transparentapfel, Weisser Transparente, White Transparente, Yellow Transparent, Yellow Transparente
- father to
- Lodi
- mother to
- Milton Early McIntosh Wrixparent
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- tall to intermediate, conic, convex, asymmetric
- fruit width
- 64-66 mm
- russet type
- numerous pale dots
- flesh colour
- white
- fruit height
- 57-70 mm
- skin texture
- slightly greasy, some bloom, tough
- flesh texture
- crisp, tender, coarse
- ground colour
- pale yellow or whitish
Photos

National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.