Applevariety
Carter's Blue
Also known as Lady Fitzpatrick
Lady Fitzpatrick
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart, aromatic and crisp. Picked in early October.
Origin · Mount Meigs, near Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.A.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- rich
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- large
Origin & family
Where Carter's Blue began
Recorded origin
Mount Meigs, near Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.A.
United States
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- crunch
- crisp
- ribbing
- medium
- synonyms
- Lady Fitzpatrick
- coarseness
- medium
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- 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.