Applevariety
Fireside
A large, sweet Minnesota apple for fresh eating.
Origin · Minnesota, United States
Released 1943
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain medium-coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour GreenSurface colour pattern striped/mottled
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- largeWidth 87.00 mmHeight 70.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges medium
Origin & family
Where Fireside began
Recorded origin
Minnesota
United States
- Institution
- University of Minnesota
- Selected
- 1917
- Released
- 1943
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On the label
Produce label codes recorded for Fireside
41004102
Organic labels add a leading 9.
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 87.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 70.00 mm
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- McIntosh x Longfield
- coarseness
- medium-coarse
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Green
- over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.