A large, late, sweet cooking apple with pale green skin striped with orange and red. Cooks to a yellow fluff. It is a modern apple, raised in 1964 by Dr F Alston at East Malling Research Station in Kent as a cross between Cox's Orange Pippin and, probably, Lane's Prince Albert. It received the Award of Garden Merit for the Minaret. Slices of this apple verge on collapsing when cooked but just keep their shape. This is a mid-season apple, harvested from late September in South-East England, is stored and is at its best between September and November.
