Applevariety
Pedro
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat in shape, raised in 1898 and introduced in 1913; mildly tart, crisp and firm. Picked in early September.
Origin · Horticultural Division, Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada
Released 1913
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour pattern striped/mottled
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- medium
Origin & family
Where Pedro began
Recorded origin
Horticultural Division, Experimental Farm, Ottawa
Canada
- Released
- 1913
Pedro’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Pedro
Horticultural Division, Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
McIntosh → PedroParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat
- crunch
- crisp
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- McIntosh x Unknown
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 On the tree at the UK National Fruit Collection.