Applevariety
Bancroft
Also known as Bankroft
Bankroft
A dessert apple, broad round conical in shape, whitish-yellow skin, cream flesh. Picked in mid-October. Introduced around 1935; selected in 1930. Subacid and firm.
Origin · Ottawa, Canada
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour striped red, nearly covered with dark redBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 67 mmFruit height 56 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at apex, slightly ribbed on bodyRusset pattern netted and dotted russet
Origin & family
Where Bancroft began
Recorded origin
Ottawa
Canada
- Selected
- 1930
Bancroft’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Bancroft
Ottawa, Canada
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- tree
- spreading
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at apex, slightly ribbed on body
- synonyms
- Bankroft
- parentage
- Forest x McIntosh
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 67 mm
- over colour
- striped red, nearly covered with dark red
- russet type
- netted and dotted russet
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 56 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, fine
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.