Applevariety
Ontario
Also known as Ontarioapfel
Ontarioapfel
A cooking and dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart, juicy and crisp. Picked in late October.
Origin · Paris, Ontario, Canada
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- subacid sweet
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed brownish red, mottled redBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 69-76 mmFruit height 51-57 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges prominent ribs base to apex
Origin & family
Where Ontario began
Recorded origin
Paris, Ontario
Canada
Ontario’s family
8 varieties · 7 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Ontario
Paris, Ontario, Canada
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- sports
- Ontario (4n) Geneva Ontario
- flavour
- subacid sweet
- ribbing
- prominent ribs base to apex
- synonyms
- Ontarioapfel
- mother to
- Schweizer Orange Juno
- parentage
- Wagener x Northern Spy
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 69-76 mm
- over colour
- flushed brownish red, mottled red
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 51-57 mm
- flesh texture
- rather coarse, soft
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.