Applevariety
Macross
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, oblong in shape; mildly tart, crisp and firm. Picked in late August.
Origin · Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- medium-firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- medium-large
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Macross began
Recorded origin
Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa
Canada
Macross’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Macross
Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
McIntosh → MacrossParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Oblong
- crunch
- crisp
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- medium-firm
- parentage
- McIntosh x Unknown
- coarseness
- coarse
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 On the tree at the UK National Fruit Collection.