Applevariety
Yamborka
A cooking apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; tart and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- very acid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour slight pinkish red flushSkin texture smooth, slightly greasyBackground colour ???pale yellow sometimes russet hairline???
- Flesh
- white, browns quickly
- Shape
- tall, rectangular, truncate-conic or conic
- Size
- mediumFruit width 56-67 mmFruit height 55-59 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at apex, slightly ribbed on bodyRusset pattern pale russet dots, sometimes ringed, russet at base, sometimes in basin
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- very acid
- ribbing
- ribbed at apex, slightly ribbed on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- tall, rectangular, truncate-conic or conic
- fruit width
- 56-67 mm
- over colour
- slight pinkish red flush
- russet type
- pale russet dots, sometimes ringed, russet at base, sometimes in basin
- flesh colour
- white, browns quickly
- fruit height
- 55-59 mm
- skin texture
- smooth, slightly greasy
- flesh texture
- firm, fine
- ground colour
- ???pale yellow sometimes russet hairline???
Photos

National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.