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Catshead
Culinary apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Originated in England and known in the 1600s. A distinctly angular and somewhat ugly apple. Fruits are coarse-textured and rather dry with a subacid flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Apfelmuser, Cat-Head, Cat-head Greening, Cat's Head, Cat's Head Apple, Cathead, Cathead Greening, Catshead Greening, Catshead Round, Coustard, Crede's Grosser Wilhelm's Apfel, de Seigneur d'Automne, Deutsche SchaPsnase, Duke of York, Engelskopf, Green Codlin, Green Costard, Green Leadington, Grenadier, Gros-Nez de Mouton, Grosse gestreifte Schafsnase, Grosse Schafnase, Grosse Schafsnase, Grosse-Schafnas, Grosse-Schafnase, Grosser Schafsnase, Herefordshire Goose, Herrenapfel, Katzenkopf, Leadington, Leadington Green, Leadington Monstrous, Leichter Mat Apfel, Loggerhead, Monstrous, Monstrous Leadington, Pigs Snout, Pomme de Seigneur d'Automne, Rosskopf, Round Catshead, Royal Costard, Schafnase, Schafsnase, Stock Leadington, Stoke Leadington, Tankard, Terwin's Goliath, Tete d'Ange, Tete de Chat, Tete de Chat Ronde, Tete de Seigneur, Tete du Chat, Tete du Chat (of Jersey)
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in Tidnor Wood National Collection® of Malus (Cider making)
- Mother to:
- Peasgood's Nonsuch
- Lord Derby
- Lord Derby Spur Type
Accession No.
1927 - 027
- Accession name
- Catshead
- Flowering time ›››
- 6th May10% flowering
11th MayFull (80%) flowering 19th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Early October 1
- Size
- large-very large 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Height
- 85.47 mm 1
- Width
- 86.12 mm 1
- Ribbing
- strong 1
- Crown
- medium-strong 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- very low 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- washed out 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Greasiness
- Strong 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 1


- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
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