Applevariety
Carlton
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape, raised in 1912; mildly tart and firm. Picked in late August.
Origin · New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed brownish red, streaked redBackground colour dull yellowish green
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- intermediate to tall, truncate-conic, convex, sometimes straight
- Size
- mediumFruit width 54-61 mmFruit height 52-61 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed base to apexRusset pattern russet dots
Origin & family
Where Carlton began
Recorded origin
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA
United States
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed base to apex
- father to
- Redhook
- mother to
- Niagara
- parentage
- Autumn Bough x Red Astrachan
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate to tall, truncate-conic, convex, sometimes straight
- fruit width
- 54-61 mm
- over colour
- flushed brownish red, streaked red
- russet type
- russet dots
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 52-61 mm
- flesh texture
- fine
- ground colour
- dull yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.