Ribston

Medium to large size and round, often lopsided and angular. Green-yellow skin with brown to orange flushes and broken red stripes on the sun-exposed face. Pale cream flesh is fine-grained and firm, crunchy, moderately sweet, and juicy. Vigorous, upright spreading tree is biennial bearing. Likes dry soils. Ripens September/October in Zone 4. Triploid. Phenotyped and confirmed correct. A classic dessert apple originally grown in 1707 at Ribston Hall in Yorkshire, U.K. SSE Accession # 100334