Applevariety
Patricia
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, oblong in shape, raised in 1898 and introduced in 1921; sweet and soft. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada
Released 1921
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- soft
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness WeakSurface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour coverage high-very high
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- mediumWidth 65.00 mmHeight 55.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Patricia began
Recorded origin
Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa
Canada
- Released
- 1921
Patricia’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Patricia
Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
McIntosh → PatriciaParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Oblong
- width
- 65.00 mm
- height
- 55.00 mm
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- soft
- parentage
- McIntosh x Unknown
- greasiness
- Weak
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.