Applevariety
Joyce
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, oblong in shape, raised in 1898 and introduced in 1924; sweet and soft. Picked in early September.
Origin · Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada
Released 1924
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- soft
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour coverage high-very highSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- mediumWidth 67.00 mmHeight 60.50 mm
Origin & family
Where Joyce began
Recorded origin
Experimental Farm, Ottawa
Canada
- Released
- 1924
Joyce’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Joyce
Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada
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
- 60.50 mm
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- soft
- parentage
- McIntosh x Lowland Raspberry
- coarseness
- coarse
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.