Applevariety
Ascot
A dessert apple, flat round in shape, green-yellow skin, greenish flesh. Picked in early-October. Raised in 1898; introduced in 1913. Sweet, juicy and soft.
Origin · Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada
Released 1913
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- soft
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Size
- medium
Origin & family
Where Ascot began
Recorded origin
Experimental Farm, Ottawa
Canada
- Released
- 1913
Ascot’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Ascot
Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Northern Spy → AscotParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat globose
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- soft
- parentage
- Northern Spy x Unknown
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.