Applevariety
Jefferis
Also known as Everbearing +4
Everbearing · Grantham · Jefferies · Jeffries · Jeffris
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and green-yellow skin, flat in shape; sweet, mildly tart, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Newlintownship, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness StrongSurface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern streaked/mottled
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 68.00 mmHeight 52.50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges very weak
Origin & family
Where Jefferis began
Recorded origin
Newlintownship, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
United States
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 68.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 52.50 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- very weak
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Everbearing, Grantham, Jefferies, Jeffries, Jeffris
- greasiness
- Strong
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked/mottled
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.