Applevariety
Fukutami
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and yellow skin, oblong in shape, raised in 1933 and named in 1948; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in late October.
Origin · Aomori Apple Experiment Station, Japan
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- mediumWidth 67.00 mmHeight 56.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Fukutami began
Recorded origin
Aomori Apple Experiment Station
Japan
Fukutami’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Fukutami
Aomori Apple Experiment Station, Japan
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
- 67.00 mm
- height
- 56.00 mm
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Jonathan x Ralls Janet
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.