Applevariety
Yellow Pitcher
A dessert apple with white flesh and yellow skin, oblong in shape; firm. Picked in late September.
Origin · Ireland
Taste & texture
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- insipid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour occasional pink flushBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- very white
- Shape
- tall, rectangular
- Size
- mediumFruit width 63 mmFruit height 63 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbedRusset pattern russet dots and veins
Origin & family
Where Yellow Pitcher began
Recorded origin
Ireland
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- insipid
- ribbing
- ribbed
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- tall, rectangular
- fruit width
- 63 mm
- over colour
- occasional pink flush
- russet type
- russet dots and veins
- flesh colour
- very white
- fruit height
- 63 mm
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.