Glass Apple
syn. Snell's White
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated from the Tamar Valley, Cornwall. It was known in 1934. Fruits have crisp, slightly coarse flesh with a slightly sweet and acid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late August
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 73.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 65.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Coarseness
- medium-coarse
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Yellow
Source · National Fruit Collection
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