Applevariety
Black McIntosh
Also known as Blackmack
Blackmack
A dessert apple, broad round conical in shape, whitish-green skin, white flesh. Picked in mid-September. Introduced in 1930; selected in 1928. Sweet, vinous, juicy and firm.
Origin · Oliver, British Columbia, Canada
Released 1930
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- fairly sweet
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour almost entiely flushed and striped crimsonBackground colour pale yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 70 mmFruit height 64 mm
Origin & family
Where Black McIntosh began
Recorded origin
Oliver, British Columbia
Canada
- Selected
- 1928
- Released
- 1930
Black McIntosh’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Black McIntosh
Oliver, British Columbia, Canada
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
McIntosh → Black McIntoshParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- fairly sweet
- synonyms
- Blackmack
- parentage
- Sport of McIntosh
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 70 mm
- over colour
- almost entiely flushed and striped crimson
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 64 mm
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- pale yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.