The World of Apples

Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Yorkshire Greening

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

Assumed to have originated in Yorkshire, England. It was first recorded in 1803. Fruits have firm, rather coarse-textured, somewhat dry flesh with a very acid flavour.

Yorkshire Greening
Where Yorkshire Greening came from.

Sources

  1. Yorkshire Greening (accession 2000 - 104), 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 (mid october); the other names.