Applevariety
Macy
Also known as Macey
Macey
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, oblong in shape; sweet, mildly tart and soft. Picked in early October.
Origin · Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station, Ames, Iowa, USA
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour coverage lowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- mediumWidth 64.00 mmHeight 60.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Macy began
Recorded origin
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station, Ames, Iowa, USA
United States
Macy’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Macy
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station, Ames, Iowa, USA, United States
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Wealthy → MacyParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Oblong
- width
- 64.00 mm
- height
- 60.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- soft
- synonyms
- Macey
- parentage
- Northwestern Greening x Wealthy
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour amount
- low
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.