Applevariety
Hector MacDonald
Also known as Hector McDonald
Hector McDonald
A cooking apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, flat in shape, introduced in 1906; tart, juicy, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Welford Park, Newbury, Berkshire
Released 1906
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm-very firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour BrownBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- mediumWidth 70.00 mmHeight 51.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges absent
Origin & family
Where Hector MacDonald began
Recorded origin
Welford Park, Newbury, Berkshire
- Released
- 1906
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 70.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 51.00 mm
- ribbing
- absent
- firmness
- firm-very firm
- synonyms
- Hector McDonald
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.