Applevariety
Arkansas
Also known as Arkansaw +1
Arkansaw · Mammoth Black Twig
A dessert apple, round in shape, yellow skin, cream flesh. Picked in late-October. Introduced around 1868. Subacid and firm.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- very firm
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed redBackground colour green to yellow
- Flesh
- tinged yellow
- Shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- large to medium
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed on body and at eye
Origin & family
Arkansas’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Arkansas
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Winesap → ArkansasParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed on body and at eye
- synonyms
- Arkansaw, Mammoth Black Twig
- parentage
- Winesap x Unknown
- fruit size
- large to medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- over colour
- flushed red
- flesh colour
- tinged yellow
- flesh texture
- fine, very firm
- ground colour
- green to yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.