Esopus Spitzenburg
Also known as Aesopus Spitzemberg +17
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A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and yellow skin, round-conical in shape; mildly tart, aromatic and crisp. Picked in early October.
Origin · Esopus, Ulster County, New York, USA
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- subacid, aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour almost completely covered bright redBackground colour deep yellow
- Flesh
- yellow
- Shape
- intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex to straight
- Size
- large
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed on bodyRusset pattern dotted
Origin & family
Where Esopus Spitzenburg began
Recorded origin
Esopus, Ulster County, New York, USA
United States
Esopus Spitzenburg’s family
54 varieties · 53 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
Esopus Spitzenburg
Esopus, Ulster County, New York, USA, United States
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- tree
- short spurs
- flavour
- subacid, aromatic
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed on body
- synonyms
- Aesopus Spitzemberg, Aesopus Spitzenberg, Aesopus Spitzenburg, Aesopus Spitzenburgh, Asopus Spitzenburg, Esopus, Esopus (Spitzenburg), Esopus Spitzemberg, Esopus Spitzenberg, Esopus Spitzenburgh, Ezop Spitzenburg, Spitszenburgh, Spitzenberg, Spitzenburg, Spitzenburgh, True Spitzenberg, True Spitzenburg, True Spitzenburgh
- mother to
- Idagold Jonathan Stearns
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex to straight
- over colour
- almost completely covered bright red
- russet type
- dotted
- flesh colour
- yellow
- flesh texture
- moderately fine, crisp, tender
- ground colour
- deep yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.