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An endangered dessert and culinary russet apple
A culinary and dessert apple of medium to large size, flattened round, with yellow skin overlaid with golden russet. The russet is sometimes complete and quite scaly.
Dark buds and blossom. Fruits have firm flesh with a subacid flavour.
To eat raw, the apples are not that juicy and a little soft, but have a rich, sweet flavour. When cooked the apple keeps its shape and has a pleasant, sweet flavour.
Season:
Blossom in May.Harvest Sept/Oct.
Stores well.
Pollination:
Group 5
Rootstock:
MM106
Notes
: Discovered in 1923 by John Jeffries & Sons Ltd., at Siddington, Gloucestershire.