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Description: Fruit rather large. Clear yellow with waxy surface. Flesh a little coarse, very juicy, sprightly, subacid, and desirable for either dessert or culinary uses. It is apt to drop as it ripens.
Tree Characteristics:
The tree is a good cropper but is sometimes biennial.
Taylor
Parentage / Origin:
Somerset, England
Harvest / Season:
Description: Sweet to mild bittersweet type. Greenish-yellow skin with red flush.
Tree Characteristics:
Telstar
Parentage / Origin:
Kidd's Orange Red x Cox's Orange
Harvest / Season:
Description: Small, oblate (flat). Has the same parentage as Gala. Strong, complex flavor. Sweeter than Cox with less acid.
Tree Characteristics:
Non-vigorous grower, strong cropper.
Description: Colors to a deep burgundy three weeks earlier than standard Empire.
Tree Characteristics:
Non-spur tree.
Photo courtesy of: Sponsel's Minnesota Harvest
Tiger (Sponsel cv.)
Parentage / Origin:
Sport of Red Haralson; Minnesota
Harvest / Season: Harvest: Mid to late October; Season: October - March
Description: Flavor and texture similar to Haralson, but has less sugar than Haralson and is noticeably more tart. Wide bands of red stripes cover a green-yellow apple. Great keeper apple and good for baking.
Parentage / Origin:
Seedling of Sutton's Beauty and Northern Spy; New York
Harvest / Season:
Description: Larve green turning to yellow skinned late apple. Mild but mellow flavor
Tree Characteristics:
Toko
Parentage / Origin:
Golden Delicious x Indo; Aomori Research Station, Japan. Introduced in 1963
Harvest / Season: Medium to large fruit ripens late October.
Description: Fruit is conic oblate, irregular and ribbed. This skin has a dull, rough finish and rather unattractive color, yellow-green with brownish-orange blush. The flesh is greenish yellow, firm, crisp, aromatic and slightly subacid. Flavor and keeping quality are excellent.
Tree Characteristics:
Tolman Sweet
Parentage / Origin:
Believed Sweet Greening x Russet; USA, 1822
Harvest / Season: Harvest: late September - early October, Season: November - January
Description: Excellent for cider and drying, also a good dessert and baking apple. Large green or yellow apple, sometimes blushed red with lines of russet, often marked by a suture top to bottom. Flesh is firm, dry to moderately juicy, decidedly sweet. Historically, a highly esteemed "sweet" apple.
Parentage / Origin:
Open pollinated Golden Delicious; Japan, 1975
Harvest / Season: Harvest: late October.
Description: 75% red over color on yellow background. Medium sized, mid- season maturing fruit. Resembles Golden Delicious, but firmer fleshed. Weakly flavored, sweet-tart, crisp and juicy.
Tree Characteristics:
Tree is spreading, moderately vigorous with annual cropping.
Tumanga
(Also known as: Auralia)
Parentage / Origin:
Cox's Orange Pippin x Schoner von Nordhausen; Germany, raised in 1930
Harvest / Season: Harvest: mid October.
Description: Yellow with an orange blush, very juicy, pleasantly aromatic, sweet, mildly subacid, a strong grower and regular bearer. A good keeper, its flavor heightens as it is kept in storage until March. Light skinned.
Harvest / Season: Harvest: September - October; Season: September - October
Description: Fruit very large, yellow-green flushed red-orange. Juicy, sweet flesh.
Tree Characteristics:
Tree moderately vigorous, a good cropper. Triploid
Tydeman's Late Orange
Parentage / Origin:
Laxton's Superb x Cox's Orange; England, 1930
Harvest / Season: Late ripening
Description: Yellowish flesh has rich flavor with a nice sugar-acid balance. Skin gold with green and red blush and conical shape.
Tree Characteristics:
Tydeman's Red
(Also known as: Tydeman's Early)
Parentage / Origin:
Worcester Pearmain x Red McIntosh; England, 1929
Harvest / Season: Harvest: late August - September
Description: Sauce and dessert apple. Early fall McIntosh type. Can size well. Not very crisp. Flushed scarlet with dark red streaks. Thin, shiny skin imparts a hint of cinnamon. Flavor deteriorates in storage.
Tree Characteristics:
Vigorous but weak-branched, very leggy, productive tree. The opposite of a spur-type, drooping because of terminal bearing habit. Particulary undesirable tree characteristics. Scab and mildew resistant.
