Applevariety
Collins
Also known as Apple of Commerce +10
Apple of Commerce · Champion · Champion Red · Collins Red · Collins' Red · Commerce · Commercio · Coss Champion · Coss's Champion · Pomme du Commerce · Torgovoe
A cooking and dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; mildly tart and firm. Picked in late October.
Origin · Arkansas, Fayetteville, U.S.A.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- very firm
- Flavour
- subacid to sweetish
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour crimson flecksSkin texture toughBackground colour golden yellow
- Flesh
- greenish or yellowish white
- Shape
- variable, flat to tall, rectangular, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 64-75 mmFruit height 54-67 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on body
Origin & family
Where Collins began
Recorded origin
Arkansas, Fayetteville, U.S.A.
United States
Collins’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Collins
Arkansas, Fayetteville, U.S.A., United States
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid to sweetish
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- synonyms
- Apple of Commerce, Champion, Champion Red, Collins Red, Collins' Red, Commerce, Commercio, Coss Champion, Coss's Champion, Pomme du Commerce, Torgovoe
- father to
- Skinlite
- mother to
- Blaze
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- variable, flat to tall, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 64-75 mm
- over colour
- crimson flecks
- flesh colour
- greenish or yellowish white
- fruit height
- 54-67 mm
- skin texture
- tough
- flesh texture
- very firm, fine
- ground colour
- golden yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.