Applevariety
Minnehaha
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and yellow skin, flat-round in shape, introduced in 1920; sweet, mildly tart and soft. Picked in late September.
Origin · University of Minnesota Fruit Breeding Farm, Excelsior
Released 1920
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour Dark RedBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 73.00 mmHeight 62.50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges very weak
Origin & family
Where Minnehaha began
Recorded origin
University of Minnesota Fruit Breeding Farm, Excelsior
- Released
- 1920
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat globose
- width
- 73.00 mm
- height
- 62.50 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- very weak
- firmness
- soft
- parentage
- Mallinda x Unknown
- coarseness
- coarse
- over colour
- Dark Red
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- 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.