Applevariety
Early McIntosh
Also known as Early Mac Intosh
Early Mac Intosh
A dessert apple with white flesh and yellow skin mostly striped orange, flat-round in shape, introduced in 1923; sweet, mildly tart and crisp. Picked in mid-August.
Origin · New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, New York
Released 1923
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Bite
- crisp
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour YellowSurface colour coverage highSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Size
- mediumWidth 58.50 mmHeight 52.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Early McIntosh began
Recorded origin
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, New York
- Released
- 1923
Early McIntosh’s family
7 varieties · 6 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Early McIntosh
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, New York
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat globose
- width
- 58.50 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 52.00 mm
- ribbing
- weak
- synonyms
- Early Mac Intosh
- father to
- Shinsei Beverly Hills
- mother to
- Dunning Alton
- parentage
- White Transparent x McIntosh
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- 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.