Redfleshed Apple Sightings
A number of people have sent me pictures of apples they've spotted. The photographs below are used by permission.
Ken from Maidenhead supplied the following pictures and commented as follows:
..... I've just been looking at your web site, prompted by the discovery of a tree that produces shiny-skinned red apples with a dense, crisp, tasty flesh that is almost entirely red.
I have only seen the tree in the dark, but it seemed to be a fairly mature and quite large tree. It exists on open land nearby.
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D.D.R, who also lives in the UK, supplied pictures of a tasty red-fleshed apple a little while back. The tree is in her garden, and is probably Discovery, which often has pink flesh.
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This is a photograph of an apple I found in a park in Leicester, 31 Aug 2010; there were several trees all shedding large quantities of red-fleshed apples. The taste was slightly tart, slightly dry texture, bland but unobjectionable flavour.
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Jonathan M contacted me a while back with another red-fleshed apple sighting in Croydon, the tree growing on London clay.
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Here's another sighting, the pictures sent to me on 31 Aug 10 by 'Michele' in rural Suffolk. This apple is a different shape but is probably another seedling.
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P.W. sent this picture of an apple near Worcester:
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And here are some growing wild on a very old tree in a little village just outside Salisbury. These have an excellent flavour and are quite scented. Thanks, JB, for the pictures.
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Lesley S. sent me some interesting pictures of an unidentified apple she found:
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and I saw these in an old orchard near Castle Donington, Leicestershire. A week later someone brought in some similar apples to the Brock's Hill Apple Day, to be identified. Unsurprisingly, no-one could put a name to them:
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Some of these apples are remarkably similar: flattened conical in shape, dull to bright pink skin, usually with a greyish 'bloom' which rubs off when handled; fairly crisp texture, early season (late Aug / early Sept), red flesh, taste unmemorable but usually reasonable. Some are likely to be Wisley Crab, a favourite foliage / decorative tree for parks and gardens.
The others will have grown from discarded cores and pips or, more rarely, will be ancient trees of lost varieties.
edited by Nigel Deacon / Diversity website
