Applevariety
Yorkshire Aromatic
A cooking apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; tart and firm. Picked in mid-September.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- acid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour slight yellow flushSkin texture smooth, slightly greasy, toughBackground colour pale green
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- tall to intermediate or flat, truncate-conic, rectangular or conic
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 59-74 mmFruit height 51-62 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges strongly ribbed at eye, ribbed on bodyRusset pattern russet on base, russet dots and netting
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- acid
- ribbing
- strongly ribbed at eye, ribbed on body
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- tall to intermediate or flat, truncate-conic, rectangular or conic
- fruit width
- 59-74 mm
- over colour
- slight yellow flush
- russet type
- russet on base, russet dots and netting
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 51-62 mm
- skin texture
- smooth, slightly greasy, tough
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- pale green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.