Applevariety
Lakeland
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, introduced in 1950; sweet, mildly tart, juicy and crisp. Picked in early September.
Origin · University of Minnesota Fruit Breeding Farm, Excelsior
Released 1950
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed, streaked and blotched purplish redSkin texture waxyBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- pale cream
- Shape
- flat to intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 66 mmFruit height 57 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on body
Origin & family
Where Lakeland began
Recorded origin
University of Minnesota Fruit Breeding Farm, Excelsior
- Released
- 1950
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- parentage
- Malinda x Unknown
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 66 mm
- over colour
- flushed, streaked and blotched purplish red
- flesh colour
- pale cream
- fruit height
- 57 mm
- skin texture
- waxy
- flesh texture
- soft
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.