Applevariety
Woolbrook Russet
A cooking apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, flat in shape, raised in 1903; tart, juicy, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Woolbrook Nursery, Sidmouth, Devon, England
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness WeakSurface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour coverage low
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- largeWidth 86.00 mmHeight 66.00 mm
- Appearance
- low-mediumSurface ridges weak-medium
Origin & family
Where Woolbrook Russet began
Recorded origin
Woolbrook Nursery, Sidmouth, Devon, England
United Kingdom
Woolbrook Russet’s family
5 varieties · 5 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Woolbrook Russet
Woolbrook Nursery, Sidmouth, Devon, England, United Kingdom
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 86.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 66.00 mm
- russet
- low-medium
- ribbing
- weak-medium
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Bramley's Seedling x King's Acre Pippin
- greasiness
- Weak
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour amount
- low
Other apple varieties
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.