Applevariety
Mantet
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, narrow conical in shape, introduced in 1929; sweet, mildly tart and aromatic. Picked in late August.
Origin · Dominion Experimental Station, Morden, Manitoba, Canada
Released 1929
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Narrow conical
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 75.50 mmHeight 74.50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges strong
Origin & family
Where Mantet began
Recorded origin
Dominion Experimental Station, Morden, Manitoba
Canada
- Released
- 1929
Mantet’s family
5 varieties · 4 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Mantet
Dominion Experimental Station, Morden, Manitoba, Canada
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Narrow conical
- width
- 75.50 mm
- height
- 74.50 mm
- ribbing
- strong
- mother to
- State Fair
- parentage
- Tetofsky x Unknown
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.