Applevariety
Fall Harvey
Also known as Harvey
Harvey
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat-round in shape, first recorded in 1838; mildly tart, crisp and rich. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- rich, subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour sometimes flushedBackground colour pale yellow
- Flesh
- whitish or tinged yellow
- Shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Size
- large
- Appearance
- Surface ridges somewhat ribbed at stalk
Origin & family
Where Fall Harvey began
Recorded origin
Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
United States
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- rich, subacid
- ribbing
- somewhat ribbed at stalk
- synonyms
- Harvey
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular, convex
- over colour
- sometimes flushed
- flesh colour
- whitish or tinged yellow
- flesh texture
- rather coarse, crisp
- ground colour
- pale yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.