Applevariety
Newtosh
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, selected in 1922; mildly tart, crisp and firm. Picked in late September.
Origin · Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour coverage high-very highSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- medium
- Appearance
- Surface ridges absent
Origin & family
Where Newtosh began
Recorded origin
Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa
Canada
- Selected
- 1922
Newtosh’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Newtosh
Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- crunch
- crisp
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- absent
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- McIntosh x Yellow Newtown Pippin
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.