Applevariety
Macoun
Also known as Mekaun
Mekaun
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat in shape, introduced in 1923; sweet and crisp. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA
Released 1923
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Bite
- crisp
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour coverage high-very highSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- mediumWidth 65.00 mmHeight 49.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Macoun began
Recorded origin
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA
United States
- Released
- 1923
Macoun’s family
8 varieties · 7 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Macoun
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA, United States
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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On the label
Produce label codes recorded for Macoun
3073
Organic labels add a leading 9.
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 65.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 49.00 mm
- ribbing
- weak
- synonyms
- Mekaun
- mother to
- Holiday Liberty Burgundy
- parentage
- McIntosh x Jersey Black
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.