Applevariety
Winston
Also known as Cox d'Hiver +2
Cox d'Hiver · Winter King · Wintercheer
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin, round-conical in shape, raised in 1920; sweet, mildly tart, aromatic and juicy. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Welford Park, Berkshire, England
Released 1935
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firmtender
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- sweet, slightly subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour extensive orange-red flush, darker red streaksSkin texture toughBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- tall, conic to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 51-61 mmFruit height 48-56 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges indistinct ribs at eye and on bodyRusset pattern greyish russet dots
Origin & family
Where Winston began
Recorded origin
Welford Park, Berkshire, England
United Kingdom
- Released
- 1935
Family tree
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, slightly subacid
- ribbing
- indistinct ribs at eye and on body
- synonyms
- Cox d'Hiver, Winter King, Wintercheer
- parentage
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Worcester Pearmain
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- tall, conic to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 51-61 mm
- over colour
- extensive orange-red flush, darker red streaks
- russet type
- greyish russet dots
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 48-56 mm
- skin texture
- tough
- flesh texture
- firm, crisp, tender
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.