Applevariety
Mio
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-green skin, truncate-conical in shape, raised in 1932; soft. Picked in early September.
Origin · Horticultural Research Station, Alnarp, Sweden
Taste & texture
- Firmness
- soft
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness StrongSurface colour RedBackground colour Whitish greenSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 68.50 mmHeight 58.50 mm
Origin & family
Where Mio began
Recorded origin
Horticultural Research Station, Alnarp
Sweden
Mio’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Mio
Horticultural Research Station, Alnarp, Sweden
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 68.50 mm
- height
- 58.50 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- soft
- parentage
- Worcester Pearmain x Oranier Pepelin
- greasiness
- Strong
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Whitish green
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.