Applevariety
Crimson Beauty (Canada)
Also known as Early Red Bird
Early Red Bird
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin, oblong in shape; tart, mildly tart and soft. Picked in early August.
Origin · New Brunswick, Canada
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acidsubacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- mediumWidth 64.00 mmHeight 51.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak-medium
Origin & family
Where Crimson Beauty (Canada) began
Recorded origin
New Brunswick
Canada
Crimson Beauty (Canada)’s family
6 varieties · 5 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Crimson Beauty (Canada)
New Brunswick, Canada
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Oblong
- width
- 64.00 mm
- height
- 51.00 mm
- ribbing
- weak-medium
- firmness
- soft
- synonyms
- Early Red Bird
- father to
- Caravel
- mother to
- Ranger Quinte
- parentage
- Duchess of Oldenburg x Fameuse
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- 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.