Applevariety
McLellan
Also known as Lilac +10
Lilac · M'Clellan's · M'Lellan · M'Lellan's · Mac-Lellan · MacLellan · Martin · Mc Lellan · McClelan · McClellan · Mek-Lellan
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape, raised in about 1780; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Woodstock, Connecticut, USA
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed and mottled bright light redBackground colour pale yellow
- Flesh
- tinged yellow
- Shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- medium to large
Origin & family
Where McLellan began
Recorded origin
Woodstock, Connecticut, USA
United States
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- tree
- upright
- flavour
- sweet, subacid
- synonyms
- Lilac, M'Clellan's, M'Lellan, M'Lellan's, Mac-Lellan, MacLellan, Martin, Mc Lellan, McClelan, McClellan, Mek-Lellan
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- over colour
- flushed and mottled bright light red
- flesh colour
- tinged yellow
- flesh texture
- fairly firm and fine, very tender
- ground colour
- pale yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.