The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Romania

Szacsvay Tafota

The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:

Originated in Transylvania, Hungary. Recorded in 1876. Fruits have crisp, somewhat coarse flesh with a slightly sweet and subacid flavour.

Sources

  1. Szacsvay Tafota (accession 1948 - 405), 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 (late september); the other names.