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English Apples - High Cross Apple

This is a very strong-flavoured, rather acidic apple, only just tolerable as an eater. However it is excellent with cream or as an ingredient of fruit salad, and I've not found a better apple for drying; the strong flavour (a little like Yellow Ingestrie) makes it ideal.

The apple is extremely late and hangs on the tree until late Dec or early Jan. The flavour is intensely fruity and tart, mellowing by March, by which time it is an excellent eater. Some years the flavour is tolerable in June or even July.

    Jan 10: After a long warm autumn this apple matured properly - an extremely good eater, at its best in mid-Jan, very strong flavoured, fruity, sweet, fresh. Bright red on sunny side.

    Nov 11: Freshly picked: vitamin C content 3.2mg per 100g fruit.

    Jun 12: Some fruit still good.


Pictures (click on small images for detail):

Blossom

high cross apple, blossom

Fruit

high cross apple, late december, original tree..... high cross apple, late december, from original tree.....

high cross apple, early november, bright red apples on multi-variety tree, grafted onto mm106..... high cross apple, close-up, after long warm autumn 2010, from grafted tree on mm106..... high cross apple, close-up, after long warm autumn 2010, from grafted tree on mm106.....

compiled by Nigel Deacon / Diversity website

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