Applevariety
Maclean's Favourite
Also known as M'Lean's Favourite +2
M'Lean's Favourite · Maclean's Favorite · McLean's Favourite
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and green-yellow skin, round-conical in shape, raised in about 1820; sweet and rich. Picked in early October.
Origin · Sudbury, England
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Flavour
- sweet, rich
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour tinged brownish redBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish
- Shape
- intermediate, conic
- Size
- medium
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed on bodyRusset pattern russet patches
Origin & family
Where Maclean's Favourite began
Recorded origin
Sudbury, England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, rich
- ribbing
- ribbed on body
- synonyms
- M'Lean's Favourite, Maclean's Favorite, McLean's Favourite
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate, conic
- over colour
- tinged brownish red
- russet type
- russet patches
- flesh colour
- yellowish
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.