Applevariety
Willie Sharp
Also known as Willy Sharp
Willy Sharp
A cooking apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; mildly tart and firm. Picked in early September.
Origin · Auckland, New Zealand
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- slightly subacid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin texture slightly greasyBackground colour clear deep yellow overall
- Flesh
- yellowish white
- Shape
- tall to intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex to almost straight
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 64-75 mmFruit height 62-73 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern russet dots, sometimes a little rough because of dots
Origin & family
Where Willie Sharp began
Recorded origin
Auckland
New Zealand
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- slightly subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- synonyms
- Willy Sharp
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- tall to intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex to almost straight
- fruit width
- 64-75 mm
- russet type
- russet dots, sometimes a little rough because of dots
- flesh colour
- yellowish white
- fruit height
- 62-73 mm
- skin texture
- slightly greasy
- flesh texture
- firm, a little coarse
- ground colour
- clear deep yellow overall
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.