Applevariety
McLiver's Winesap
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, flat-round in shape; mildly tart and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour mottled orange-red flush and red streaksBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- flat to intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 51-57 mmFruit height 42-48 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye, slightly on bodyRusset pattern some russet on base
Origin & family
McLiver's Winesap’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
McLiver's Winesap
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Winesap → McLiver's WinesapParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye, slightly on body
- parentage
- Winesap x Unknown
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 51-57 mm
- over colour
- mottled orange-red flush and red streaks
- russet type
- some russet on base
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 42-48 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, fine
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.