Applevariety
Monroe
A cooking and dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, raised in 1910 and introduced in 1947; sweet, mildly tart and soft. Picked in early October.
Origin · New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, New York, USA
Released 1947
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour BrownBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 69.00 mmHeight 57.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Monroe began
Recorded origin
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, New York, USA
United States
- Released
- 1947
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Culinary / Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 69.00 mm
- height
- 57.00 mm
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- soft
- father to
- Burgundy
- parentage
- Jonathan x Rome Beauty
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.