Applevariety
Jersey Black
Also known as Black American +5
Black American · Black Apple · Black Apple of America · Black Jersey · Dodge's Black · Small Black
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart, aromatic and crisp. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- subacid to slightly sweet, aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour nearly covered dark brownish red flushBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish white, often tinged red
- Shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 72-81 mmFruit height 55-68 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges prominent ribs at eye, ribbed on bodyRusset pattern light dots
Origin & family
Jersey Black’s family
7 varieties · 6 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Jersey Black
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Jersey Black → MacounParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid to slightly sweet, aromatic
- ribbing
- prominent ribs at eye, ribbed on body
- synonyms
- Black American, Black Apple, Black Apple of America, Black Jersey, Dodge's Black, Small Black
- father to
- Macoun
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 72-81 mm
- over colour
- nearly covered dark brownish red flush
- russet type
- light dots
- flesh colour
- yellowish white, often tinged red
- fruit height
- 55-68 mm
- flesh texture
- crisp, rather coarse
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.