Applevariety
Granny Smith
A green apple with a firm, tart bite.
Origin · Eastwood, Ryde, New South Wales, Australia
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- low
- Acidity
- subacid
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- subacid, moderately sweet
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Background colour green to greenish yellow
- Flesh
- greenish to yellowish white
- Shape
- intermediate, rectangular, to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 64 mmFruit height 57 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eyeRusset pattern some fine netted russet
Harvest & storage
- Harvest
- mid
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In US stores
Usual monthsToday, Oct 23From United States · Usual months
Oct · Supply recorded
- Supply recorded
Usual supply in the source records; not live store stock.
Origin & family
Where Granny Smith began
Recorded origin
Eastwood, Ryde, New South Wales
Australia
Granny Smith’s family
14 varieties · 13 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Granny Smith
Eastwood, Ryde, New South Wales, Australia
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On the label
Produce label codes recorded for Granny Smith
4017401841384139
Organic labels add a leading 9.
Field notes
Original source notes
- size
- large · United Kingdomnationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- shape
- conical · United Kingdomnationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- flesh colour
- green · United Kingdomnationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- texture
- crisp · United Kingdomnationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- firmness
- firm to very firm · United Kingdomnationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- season timing
- mid · Washingtontreefruit.wsu.edu ↗
- skin colour ripe
- green · Washingtontreefruit.wsu.edu ↗
- sweetness
- low · Washingtontreefruit.wsu.edu ↗
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, moderately sweet
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye
- mother to
- Lady Williams Red Granny Smith
- parentage
- French Crab x Unknown
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular, to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 64 mm
- russet type
- some fine netted russet
- flesh colour
- greenish to yellowish white
- fruit height
- 57 mm
- flesh texture
- hard, crisp
- ground colour
- green to greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.