Applevariety
Atlas
A dessert apple, truncate conical in shape, whitish-yellow skin, white flesh. Picked in early-September. Introduced around 1924. Subacid, juicy, crisp and firm.
Origin · Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- medium
- Appearance
- Surface ridges medium-strong
Origin & family
Where Atlas began
Recorded origin
Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa
Canada
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- crunch
- crisp
- ribbing
- medium-strong
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Manks Codlin x Unknown
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.