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Harvest / Season: Harvest: October - November, Season: November - January
Description: Medium size fruit, russet freckles over gold skin. Yellow-white, sweet, sub-acid, aromatic flesh. Crisp and juicy with intense sweet, sharp flavor,. developing the pineapple flavor late in the season (its name means pineapple russet).
Tree Characteristics:
Small tree, suitable for a small garden.
Description: Yellow variety with red blush has a sweet, crisp flavor. Keeps two months refrigerated.
Tree Characteristics:
Low chill (200 hours) variety
Antonovka
Parentage / Origin:
Russia
Harvest / Season: Harvest: September, Season: September - November
Description: Good quality eating and cooking apple.
Tree Characteristics:
Reproduces fairly true from seed, seedlings used as rootstock. Tree vigorous and hardy.
Api Etoile
(Also known as: Star Lady)
Parentage / Origin:
Switzerland, 1600s
Harvest / Season: Harvest: Late season
Description: Very unusual oblate (flattened) shape looking like a rounded star from the end. A little larger than the Lady apple. Excellent flavor: aromatic with sufficient acid and a sweet fruity taste.
Parentage / Origin:
Probably a seedling of Winesap.; Benton County, Arkansas around 1870
Harvest / Season: Harvest: Late October - November
Description: Extremely beautiful, medium size, smooth, round, dark purplish red fruits turn nearly black at maturity. Waxy skin. Crisp, juicy, very firm, yellow flesh. Distinctive aromatic flavor lends itself well to cider blending. Very good quality, use for fresh eating or cooking. Excellent keeper; mellows in storage.
Parentage / Origin:
Ingrid Marie x Filippa; Raised 1945 at Balsgard Fruit Breeding Inst, Sweden. Introduced in 1973.
Harvest / Season: Harvest: Early October
Description: At best, good, rich, fruity flavor; melting, very juicy, cream flesh. Can be weakly flavored. Skin predominately red flushed, smooth. Sweet taste.
Tree Characteristics:
Aromatic Russet
Parentage / Origin:
England
Harvest / Season: Harvest: October, Season: November - January
Description: Bright red, netted with russet. Flavor sweet-sharp and intense.
Tree Characteristics:
Picture taken at: Christmas Cove
Ashmead's Kernel
Parentage / Origin:
Gloucester, England, 1720
Harvest / Season: Harvest: mid-October, Season: December - February
Description: Old late season apple of excellent flavor and highest quality. Bright green-yellow fruit flushed orange with light cinnamon russeting. Sweet, slightly acid and highly aromatic flavor. Crisp, juicy flesh.
