Applevariety
Young America
A dessert apple with yellow skin, oblong in shape; tart and astringent. Picked in late August.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Flavour
- astringent
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour RedBackground colour YellowSurface colour coverage high-very highSurface colour pattern streaked
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- smallWidth 46.00 mmHeight 42.00 mm
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- small
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Oblong
- width
- 46.00 mm
- height
- 42.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Red
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.