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Somerset Lasting
type: Cooking, Sauce
identification: Large, oblate, angular side and ridged crown. The skin base colour is pale yellow which is streaked bright red on the sun exposed face and sparsely marked with red lenticels. The stem is short and set in a wide, deep and russet lined cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is yellow, crisp. Juicy. Flavourful.
uses: Cooking apple. Makes a sweet but somewhat bland sauce.
origins: Somerset (UK)
cultivation: Vigorous, spreading.
cold storage: Keeps up to two months.
harvest: In the first half of the third period.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 11
ploidism: Self sterile. Group C. Day 11.
cold storage weeks: 8
harvest period: 3
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