Applevariety
Minjon
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, introduced in 1942; mildly tart and soft. Picked in late September.
Origin · University of Minnesota Fruit Breeding Farm, Excelsior, USA
Released 1942
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour coverage highSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- small-mediumWidth 55.50 mmHeight 51.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Minjon began
Recorded origin
University of Minnesota Fruit Breeding Farm, Excelsior, USA
United States
- Released
- 1942
Minjon’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Minjon
University of Minnesota Fruit Breeding Farm, Excelsior, USA, United States
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- small-medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 55.50 mm
- height
- 51.00 mm
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- soft
- parentage
- Wealthy x Jonathan
- coarseness
- coarse
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour amount
- high
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.