Applevariety
Macwood
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, raised in 1936; sweet and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain medium-coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour coverage high-very highSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 63.00 mmHeight 63.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges medium-strong
Origin & family
Where Macwood began
Recorded origin
Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa
Canada
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 63.00 mm
- height
- 63.00 mm
- ribbing
- medium-strong
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- McIntosh x Forest
- coarseness
- medium-coarse
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Green 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.