Applevariety
Medina
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and yellow skin, flat-round in shape, raised in 1911 and introduced in 1923; sweet, mildly tart, aromatic and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, New York, USA
Released 1923
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain medium-coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness WeakSurface colour OrangeBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 70.50 mmHeight 63.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges strong
Origin & family
Where Medina began
Recorded origin
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, New York, USA
United States
- Released
- 1923
Medina’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Medina
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, New York, USA, United States
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Delicious → MedinaParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat globose
- width
- 70.50 mm
- height
- 63.00 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- strong
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Deacon Jones x Delicious
- coarseness
- medium-coarse
- greasiness
- Weak
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.