Applevariety
Woodford
A cooking apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and soft. Picked in early September.
Origin · Essex, England
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- subacid, slightly sweet, slightly perfumed
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour slight orange-brown flushSkin texture tackyBackground colour golden yellow
- Flesh
- pale cream
- Shape
- tall, conic, convex to straight
- Size
- mediumFruit width 69 mmFruit height 69 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at base and apexRusset pattern a little netted russet, conspicuous stellate russet dots
Origin & family
Where Woodford began
Recorded origin
Essex, England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, slightly sweet, slightly perfumed
- ribbing
- ribbed at base and apex
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- tall, conic, convex to straight
- fruit width
- 69 mm
- over colour
- slight orange-brown flush
- russet type
- a little netted russet, conspicuous stellate russet dots
- flesh colour
- pale cream
- fruit height
- 69 mm
- skin texture
- tacky
- flesh texture
- coarse, soft
- ground colour
- golden yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.