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Description: Resembles McIntosh in taste, appearance, shape, and flesh. Slightly firmer than McIntosh. Aceymac may be Spartan with new name.
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Adams Pearmain
(Also known as: Norfolk Pippin, Hanging Pearmain)
Parentage / Origin:
Herefordshire, England, 1826
Harvest / Season: Harvest: Early to Mid-October, Season: November-March
Description: Conical shaped fruit striped red on a yellow background with a thin brown russet. Creamy white flesh is firm, crisp, tender, with a rich, nutty taste.
Tree Characteristics:
The tree is hardy with some resistance to scab.
Adanac
Parentage / Origin:
Open pollinated Battleford.
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Description: Medium-sized, yellow-green underecolor with striped red wash. Good dessert quality. The apple name, Adanac, is Canada spelled backwards.
Tree Characteristics:
Moderately winter hardy, good resistance to fireblight.
Akane
(Also known as: Prime Red, Tokyo Rose)
Parentage / Origin:
Jonathan x Worcester Pearmain.; Tohoku Agricultural Experiment station, 1970
Harvest / Season: Harvest: Late August to early September
Description: Round, bright red fruit with hard, crisp, juicy, white flesh. Tart, sprightly flavor resembling Jonathan. Good for drying. Hangs well on tree and is a better keeper than most Fall varieties.
Tree Characteristics:
An early bearer, it can be a shy producer. It will bear well in low chill climates. Leaves have yellow tinge. Thin well to good size.
Akero
Parentage / Origin:
Sweden, 1600's or 1700's
Harvest / Season: Harvest: Late August
Description: One of the oldest Swedish apples, still popular in Sweden. Firm, coarse. Sweet to subacid dessert apple. Akero is a town in Sweden
Parentage / Origin:
c.1700s Ukraine, introduced to England 1805
Harvest / Season: Harvest: late September - mid October, Season: late September - mid October
Description: Excellent cooking apple and good eating apple. Very large, conical shape. Pale green-yellow skin streaked with red, or orange and flushed with brilliant red where in the sun.
Tree Characteristics:
Alfriston
Parentage / Origin:
Sussex England, late 1700s
Harvest / Season: Harvest: Late season
Description: Large, first class cooking green colored apple.
Tree Characteristics:
Heavy bearer
Alkmene
Parentage / Origin:
Harvest / Season: Harvest: mid September
Description: A very good quality eating and multi-purpose apple. Crisp, juicy with an intense distinctive flavor. Fruit is bright red in color. Not a keeper.
Tree Characteristics:
The tree seems compact, almost spur type, productive.
Description: Medium-size, conic with some reddish flush or stripes over green or yellow. Cream colored flesh mellowing to intense fruit drop or pineapple taste. Sharp (acid) and good for cooking as it holds its shape.
Tree Characteristics:
Almata
Parentage / Origin:
Beautiful Arcade x Fluke 38 Crab; South Dakota, USA
Harvest / Season: Harvest: End of August
Description: Small to medium. Skin is dull red. Flesh is entirely red. Sour, but edible fresh when fully ripe.
Tree Characteristics:
Ambrosia, USPP #10,789
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Description: Crisp, high sugar content.
Tree Characteristics:
American Summer Pearmain
Parentage / Origin:
United States, early 1800s
Harvest / Season: Harvest: August, Season: August - September
Description: Excellent early eating apple, also good for cooking. Medium size, yellow-green fruit is flushed and streaked red to purple red. Sweet, very juicy flesh.
Tree Characteristics:
Tree of low vigor, heavily fruit spurred. Ideal for trellis or espalier. Does well on light soil.
