Applevariety
McSweet
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, flat in shape; sweet, juicy, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Central Experiment Farm, Ottawa, Canada
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- medium
Origin & family
Where McSweet began
Recorded origin
Central Experiment Farm, Ottawa
Canada
McSweet’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
McSweet
Central Experiment Farm, Ottawa, Canada
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
McIntosh → McSweetParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat
- ribbing
- medium
- parentage
- McIntosh x Unknown
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.