Applevariety
Mother
Also known as American Mother +9
American Mother · Gardener's Apple · Mother Apple · Mother of ATnerica · Mother of the Arneri cans · Mutter Apfel · Mutterapfel · Queen · Queen Anne · Queen Mary
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, first recorded in 1844; sweet, aromatic, juicy and crisp. Picked in late September.
Origin · Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern streaked/mottled
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 69.00 mmHeight 69.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Mother began
Recorded origin
Massachusetts, U.S.A.
United States
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 69.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 69.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak
- synonyms
- American Mother, Gardener's Apple, Mother Apple, Mother of ATnerica, Mother of the Arneri cans, Mutter Apfel, Mutterapfel, Queen, Queen Anne, Queen Mary
- father to
- Mrs. Phillimore
- mother to
- Thomas Rivers Ruzena Blahova
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked/mottled
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Mother (LA73A) apple, cross-sectioned. Synonyms: American Mother, Gardener's Apple, Mother Apple