Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Obelisk
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in 1970 at East Malling Research Station, Maidstone, Kent. Fruits are crisp, juicy and rather brisk, becoming mellow in the New Year. Tendency to biennial bearing.
Sources
- Obelisk (accession 1999 - 027), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (early october); the other names.
