Help please, identify this apple variety

unhappy_shopper

Hi,

I have this apple tree, variety unknown, which is in the backyard of our house. Can anyone please identify the variety?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/85534707@N04/8008664723/in/photostream/
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Will these apples store well? There are quite sweet tasting, so I guess it is a dessert variety. Sorry for the low quality photos, they are taken with an old phone. TIA for your kind help.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/85534707@N04/8024097335/in/photostream/

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blossomhill_2

Hi OP - that's a "big ask" - even the apple experts on apple identifaction days can't identify every apple that passes in front of their eyes!

One question they always ask is do you know when it was planted

poorly_scammo

They look similar to what is growing in my garden - William Crump. A lovely apple.

Just a head's up: my local RHS garden Harlow Carr (near Harrogate) is having a Fruit Identification Day on 25th September http://apps.rhs.org.uk/rhseventfinder/details.aspx?id=9515&r=true You need to take a branch and a fruit along.

Perhaps other RHS gardens will be doing the same near where you live. Might be worth investigating.

Mojisola

You might be able to narrow it down here - https://www.gardenappleid.co.uk/index.php/photo-galleries/213-red-photo-gallery

RAS

Hi

Look here http://www.fruitid.com/

I cannot get any idea from the tree photos and you do not indicate where you are in the UK but from the kitchen piccies and knowing that the fruit is still only recently ripe up here,m I think this may be Discovery.

You are a lucky bunny to have that much fruit on any tree this year but if it is Discovery then it does not keep well - early apples do not as a rule.

Put some in plastic bags, sealed with a couple of small holes in the sides and they will keep a big longer in the salad drawer.

Juice the rest.

unhappy_shopper

RAS wrote: »

Hi

Look here http://www.fruitid.com/

I cannot get any idea from the tree photos and you do not indicate where you are in the UK but from the kitchen piccies and knowing that the fruit is still only recently ripe up here,m I think this may be Discovery.

You are a lucky bunny to have that much fruit on any tree this year but if it is Discovery then it does not keep well - early apples do not as a rule.

Put some in plastic bags, sealed with a couple of small holes in the sides and they will keep a big longer in the salad drawer.

Juice the rest.

Thanks for your help. This apple tree is from our home in Bedfordshire. The apples are ripe and they are falling off the tree. So, I have plucked as many as I could reach and currently the salad drawer of my fridge is full of these. I have made apple sauce and pie filling too and shared quite a few with my neighbours Still there is lots left on the tree.

RAS

In which case the most likely varieity is Discovery.

That can ripen in mid/late August in a very good year down south. It is normally very ripe here in early September and it is still sitting on a lot of trees.

Everything is 3-4 weeks late so I think Discovery.

It is a very common early apple. It is the earliest red apple.
Other early red apples are not commonly sold as trees and most are too recent to have grown to that size.