Newtown Spitzenburg
Also known as Barrett's Spitzenberg +33
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A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, flat in shape; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in late October.
Origin · Newtown, Long Island, USA
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- mediumWidth 52.00 mmHeight 51.50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak-medium
Origin & family
Where Newtown Spitzenburg began
Recorded origin
Newtown, Long Island, USA
United States
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 52.00 mm
- height
- 51.50 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak-medium
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Barrett's Spitzenberg, Barrett's Spitzenburgh, Barretts Spitzenburgh, Burlington, Burlington Spitzemberg, Burlington Spitzenberg, English Spitzemberg, English Spitzenberg, Joc Berry, Joe Berry, Kounty, Kountz, Matchless, New York Vandevere, Newton Spitszenburgh, Newton Spitzemberg, Newton Spitzenberg, Newton Spitzenburg, Newton Spitzenburgh, Newtown Spitzemberg, Newtown Spitzenberg, Newtown Spitzenbergh, Newtown Spitzenburgh, Ox Eye, Ox-Eye, Queen of the Dessert, Spiced Ox Eye, Spiced Ox-Eye, Spitzemberg, Spitzenburgh, Vandervere, Vandervere of New York, Vandevere, Vandevere of New York
- coarseness
- coarse
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.