Applevariety
Linda
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round in shape, introduced in about 1925; sweet, mildly tart, aromatic and crisp. Picked in late September.
Origin · Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- fairly sweet, subacid, aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour deep carmine flush and stripesBackground colour pale yellow
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Size
- medium to large
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye
Origin & family
Where Linda began
Recorded origin
Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa
Canada
Linda’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Linda
Central 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
- flavour
- fairly sweet, subacid, aromatic
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye
- father to
- Karmen Lindel
- parentage
- Langford Beauty x Unknown
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- over colour
- deep carmine flush and stripes
- flesh colour
- white
- flesh texture
- fine, fairly crisp and tender,
- ground colour
- pale yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.