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Catshead
type: Culinary, Cider, Sauce
synonyms: Cat’s Head, Catshead Greening, Catshead Round, Coustard, Duke of York, Green Codlin, Green Costard, Grenadier, Herefordshire Goose, Leadington, Leadington Green, Leadington Monstrous, Loggerhead, Monstrous, Monstrous Leadington, Pigs Snout, Round Catshead, Royal Costard, Stock Leadington, Stoke Leadington, Tankard, Terwin’s Goliath
summary: A heritage British cooking apple, makes sharp and firm sauce. Also good for making dried apple rings.
identification: Large ranging to very large, oblong and irregularly shaped. Prominent ribs and knobbed at the crown. Pale green skin marked with russet lenticels. Sometimes blushed brownish on the sun exposed face. Skin feels greasy. The calyx is large and open, set in an irregularly shaped basin. The stem is short and slender, set in a deep and narrow cavity.
characteristics: Flesh is white, coarse-grained, juicy, soft. Sharp with a slightly perfumed flavour.
origins: The first record of this apple from the Sussex area of England is by botanist John Parkinson in 1629.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, spreading tree, naturally tending to be large. Spur bearer. Crops well once the tree is mature.
cold storage: Keeps for up to four months.
vulnerabilities: Scab resistant.
harvest: Starting in the early part of the fifth period.
notes: Very similar to the Grenadier .
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 12
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 16
harvest period: 5
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