Applevariety
Cortland
Also known as Cartland +2
Cartland · Courtland · Courtlandt
A dessert apple with green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, raised in 1898; sweet and juicy. Picked in early October.
Origin · New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour coverage highSurface colour pattern striped
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- largeWidth 75.00 mmHeight 59.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak-medium
Origin & family
Where Cortland began
Recorded origin
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA
United States
Cortland’s family
6 varieties · 5 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Cortland
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA, United States
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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On the label
Produce label codes recorded for Cortland
41044106
Organic labels add a leading 9.
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 75.00 mm
- height
- 59.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak-medium
- synonyms
- Cartland, Courtland, Courtlandt
- mother to
- Birgit Bonnier Kim Eva Lotta
- parentage
- Ben Davis x McIntosh
- over colour
- Red
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour amount
- high
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.