Applevariety
Lawfam
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, oblong in shape, raised in 1898 and introduced in 1922; sweet, wine-like, crisp and firm. Picked in late September.
Origin · Horticulture Division, Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada
Released 1922
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Flavour
- vinous
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour coverage high-very high
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- largeWidth 77.00 mmHeight 65.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Lawfam began
Recorded origin
Horticulture Division, Experimental Farm, Ottawa
Canada
- Released
- 1922
Lawfam’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Lawfam
Horticulture Division, 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
- large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Oblong
- width
- 77.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 65.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Lawver x Fameuse
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.