Charles Ross

Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.

Culinary / Dessert

Origin

United Kingdom

Measured Phenotype

Brix: 13.5 °Bx
Fruit height: 45.0 mm
Fruit width: 55.0 mm

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Charles Ross is a dual-purpose apple with large, pale yellow-green fruit covered in light red flush and bold broken stripes. The flesh is tender, juicy, and pleasantly sweet. It ripens October to December and is becoming a popular market apple, particularly well-suited to thin chalk soils.

Flavor & Texture

sweetpleasanttenderjuicy

Best Uses

fresh_eatingcooking

Lineage

Parents

Cox Orange Pippin Peasgood's Nonsuch x Cox's Orange Pippin Peasgood's Nonsuch

Offspring

Eros Guelph Hood's Supreme Upton Pyne

Origin & History

Status: commercial
Origin type: deliberate cross
Original breeder: Charles Ross
First introduced: 1899

tendershort texturefairly juicyquite sweetpleasant flavour

References

USDA-NPGS: PI 589659
UK National Fruit Collection: 1051
Wikidata: Q2960151