Grower = Kenton Hill, SA
Large with a firm, sweet, crisp juicy flesh. Excellent in salads, sauces and pies. Pink Lady has a pink blush over a greenish yellow base skin.
Known as the Queen of apples, it is a crisp apple with a dense, firm flesh and an excellent, almost effervescent flavour.
Pink Lady has a high sugar content making it perfect for cooking. Pink Lady was developed in the 1970s by John Cripps in Western Australia, and is a cross between Golden Delicious and Lady Williams. This same breeding programme also led to Cripps Red (sold as Sundowner )which shares the same parentage. Lady Williams is not a particularly well known apple variety in Europe, but has been quite widely grown in Australia, having been discovered as a chance seedling in the 1930s.
It is probably from Lady Williams that Pink Lady gets its distinct colouring Pink Lady has a pink blush over a greenish yellow base skin.
Known as the Queen of apples, it is a crisp apple with a dense, firm flesh and an excellent, almost effervescent flavour.
Pink Lady has a high sugar content making it perfect for cooking.