Applevariety
Megumi
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, oblong in shape, raised in 1931 and named in 1948; mildly tart, crisp and firm. Picked in late October.
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Origin · Aomori Apple Experiment Station, Japan
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Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed dull orange brown, streaked redBackground colour pale greenish yellow
- Flesh
- cream, tinged yellow
- Shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 63-57 mmFruit height 57 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and base
Origin & family
Where Megumi began
Recorded origin
Aomori Apple Experiment Station
Japan
Megumi’s family
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This variety
Megumi
Aomori Apple Experiment Station, Japan
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and base
- parentage
- Ralls Janet x Jonathan
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 63-57 mm
- over colour
- flushed dull orange brown, streaked red
- flesh colour
- cream, tinged yellow
- fruit height
- 57 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, crisp
- ground colour
- pale greenish yellow