Applevariety
Niagara
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, introduced in 1962; sweet, mildly tart, aromatic and crisp. Picked in early September.
Origin · New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA
Released 1962
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- medium
Origin & family
Where Niagara began
Recorded origin
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA
United States
- Released
- 1962
Niagara’s family
5 varieties · 4 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Niagara
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA, United States
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
- parentage
- Carlton x McIntosh
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.