Applevariety
Widdup
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, flat-round in shape; sweet, mildly tart, crisp and firm. Picked in early October.
Origin · New Zealand
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- subacid, slightly sweet
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour brownish to orange-red flush, carmine streaksSkin texture smooth, toughBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- flat to intermediate, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 62-80 mmFruit height 50-66 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eyeRusset pattern a few russet patches and dots, russet at base
Origin & family
Where Widdup began
Recorded origin
New Zealand
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, slightly sweet
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 62-80 mm
- over colour
- brownish to orange-red flush, carmine streaks
- russet type
- a few russet patches and dots, russet at base
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 50-66 mm
- skin texture
- smooth, tough
- flesh texture
- firm, fine, crisp
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.