Applevariety
Chenango Strawberry
Also known as Buckley +12
Buckley · Chenago · Chenango · Chennango Strawberry · Fraise de Chenango · Frank · Jackson · Jackson Apple · Jackson's Apple · Sherwood's Favorite · Sherwood's Favourite · Smyrna · Strawberry
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and whitish-yellow skin, conical in shape; mildly tart, aromatic and firm. Picked in early September.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- subacid, aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour often almost entirely flushed and splashed redBackground colour yellowish white
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- tall, conic, convex to straight
- Size
- medium
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, aromatic
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed
- synonyms
- Buckley, Chenago, Chenango, Chennango Strawberry, Fraise de Chenango, Frank, Jackson, Jackson Apple, Jackson's Apple, Sherwood's Favorite, Sherwood's Favourite, Smyrna, Strawberry
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- tall, conic, convex to straight
- over colour
- often almost entirely flushed and splashed red
- flesh colour
- white
- flesh texture
- tender, moderately firm
- ground colour
- yellowish white
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.