National Botanic Garden of Wales, United Kingdom

Common name: afal coginio, cooking apple

Family: Rosaceae (Rose family)

Distribution: Gardd/Garden

Hardiness: (H6) Hardy-very cold winter. -20 to -15°C (USDA 6b/7a)

Life form: Deciduous tree • Coeden gollddail

Usage: Edible

Geirdarddiad / Etymology: Malus (MAY-lus): Ancient Latin name for an apple tree.

Geirdarddiad / Etymology: domestica (doh-MESS-tik-a): Of the household.

Description: Reputedly found growing in a Cumbrian rubbish tip in 1790. A very early, medium to large, cooking apple with pale green to pale yellow, rather greasy skin, and pale cream, tender, juicy flesh which cooks to a froth. A neat, upright tree, reliably producing a heavy crop in late summer, storing for up to a month. Partially self-fertile, but cropping better with a group 1, 2 or 3 pollinator.