Applevariety
Payette
A cooking apple with greenish flesh and yellow skin, flat in shape, raised in 1936 and introduced in 1944; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Agricultural Experiment Station, Moscow, Idaho, USA
Released 1944
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness StrongSurface colour RedBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- largeWidth 85.00 mmHeight 74.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges strong
Origin & family
Where Payette began
Recorded origin
Agricultural Experiment Station, Moscow, Idaho, USA
United States
- Released
- 1944
Payette’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Payette
Agricultural Experiment Station, Moscow, Idaho, USA, United States
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Wagener → PayetteParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 85.00 mm
- height
- 74.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- strong
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Ben Davies x Wagener
- coarseness
- fine
- greasiness
- Strong
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.