Applevariety
American Beauty
Also known as Beauty of America +4
Beauty of America · Belle Americaine · Krasavitsa amerikanka · Sterling · Sterling Beauty
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and yellow skin, conical in shape; aromatic and soft. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Sterling, Massachusetts, USA
Taste & texture
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- soft
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour YellowSurface colour coverage high-very high
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Conical
- Size
- large
Origin & family
Where American Beauty began
Recorded origin
Sterling, Massachusetts, USA
United States
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Conical
- russet
- very low
- firmness
- soft
- synonyms
- Beauty of America, Belle Americaine, Krasavitsa amerikanka, Sterling, Sterling Beauty
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.