Applevariety
Legana
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape, raised in about 1940; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in late October.
Origin · Legana, Tasmania, Australia
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed dark redBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- flat, truncateconic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 58 mmFruit height 50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eyeRusset pattern sometimes netted russet
Origin & family
Where Legana began
Recorded origin
Legana, Tasmania
Australia
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, subacid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye
- parentage
- Democrat x Delicious
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, truncateconic, convex
- fruit width
- 58 mm
- over colour
- flushed dark red
- russet type
- sometimes netted russet
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 50 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, fine
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.