Applevariety
Ames
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; sweet, wine-like, juicy and soft. Picked in early September.
Origin · Iowa Agricultural Experimental Station, Ames, Iowa, U.S.A
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- soft
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Flavour
- vinous
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour coverage high-very highSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Size
- small
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Ames began
Recorded origin
Iowa Agricultural Experimental Station, Ames, Iowa, U.S.A
United States
Ames’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Ames
Iowa Agricultural Experimental Station, Ames, Iowa, U.S.A, United States
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Allen's Choice → AmesParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- small
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Globose conical
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- soft
- parentage
- Allen's Choice x Perry Russet
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.