Royalty Apples

I was unfamiliar with the Royalty apple, they're about the size of a grapefruit but still firm and sweet.  At that size they're more of a meal than a snack, but apples share well if you have a knife. Apparently it's novelty as a cultivar is for it's redness and not it's size

‘Royalty’ is one of the few apple cultivars producing 100% red-pigmented progeny. Most red-pigmented apples produce some non-red progeny, and more than would be likely in a random set. Apparently this is due to a single dominant red pigment gene. More here.


I am much more familiar with the Royalty crab apple, which this is clearly not. To which the pigmentation data applies is uncertain.