Apple 'Knobbed Russet'

knobbed russet (a.k.a. knobby russet).
use: dessert
colour: russet
flavour: strong
fruit size: medium
...Read Morepicking time: mid october
season of use: dec-mar
tree vigour: moderate
tree habit: upright-spreading
fruit bearing: spur-bearer
self fertility: self-sterile (no problem to find suitable pollination partners)

Also known as: Knobby Russet, Old Maid’s Winter, Winter Russet.

There’s only one way to adequately describe this apple...Read More - it's just plain ugly! Often said to look more like a potato than an apple, Knobbed Russet originated in Sussex, England in 1819. It was preserved after WW II when the National Fruit Trials collections were first assembled in England. Described in Burford’s, Apples - A Catalog of International Varieties, as being green and yellow with occasional scarlet streaks on the sunny side. Its irregular, uneven surface is overlaid with rough gray and black russet and distinctive welts and knobs. The soft and sweet creamy flesh is fine-grained with a sweet flavor. Ripens in October.