Applevariety
Winter Majetin
Also known as Majetin +1
Majetin · Yorkshire Beefing
A cooking apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; mildly tart and crisp. Picked in late October.
Origin · Norfolk, England
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed red-brownSkin texture shining, somewhat greasyBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- intermediate to tall, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 64 mmFruit height 51-64 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eyeRusset pattern dotted
Origin & family
Where Winter Majetin began
Recorded origin
Norfolk, England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye
- synonyms
- Majetin, Yorkshire Beefing
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate to tall, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 64 mm
- over colour
- flushed red-brown
- russet type
- dotted
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 51-64 mm
- skin texture
- shining, somewhat greasy
- flesh texture
- crisp, rather coarse
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.