Applevariety
Lobo
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, raised in 1898; wine-like, juicy, crisp and soft. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada
Released 1910
Taste & texture
- Firmness
- soft
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- 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 highSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- largeWidth 78.00 mmHeight 64.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak-medium
Origin & family
Where Lobo began
Recorded origin
Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa
Canada
- Released
- 1910
Lobo’s family
5 varieties · 4 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Lobo
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
- size
- large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 78.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 64.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak-medium
- parentage
- McIntosh x Unknown
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.