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A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, conical in shape, introduced in 1938 and selected in about 1925; sweet and soft. Picked in early August.
Origin · Arlington, Virginia, U.S.A.
Released 1938
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- soft
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Conical
- Size
- largeWidth 75.00 mmHeight 72.50 mm
Origin & family
Where Close began
Recorded origin
Arlington, Virginia, U.S.A.
United States
- Released
- 1938
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Conical
- width
- 75.00 mm
- height
- 72.50 mm
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- soft
- parentage
- Yellow transparent
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 On the tree at the UK National Fruit Collection.