Applevariety
Yorkshire Greening
Also known as Coate's +13
Coate's · Coates · Coates' · Coates' Greening · Coates's · Goose Sauce · Grunling von Yorkshire · Seek no Farther · Seek no Further · Seek-no- Further · Seek-no-Farther · Verte du Comte d'York · Yorkshire Goose Sauce · Yorkshire Greeting
A cooking apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin, flat in shape, first recorded in 1803; tart, crisp, firm and dry. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour BrownBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- largeWidth 77.00 mmHeight 58.50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges strong
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 77.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 58.50 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- strong
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Coate's, Coates, Coates', Coates' Greening, Coates's, Goose Sauce, Grunling von Yorkshire, Seek no Farther, Seek no Further, Seek-no- Further, Seek-no-Farther, Verte du Comte d'York, Yorkshire Goose Sauce, Yorkshire Greeting
- coarseness
- coarse
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.