Applevariety
Porter
Also known as Jenning's +3
Jenning's · Jennings · Porter's · Yellow Summer Pearmain
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and yellow skin, ellipsoid in shape, raised in about 1800; mildly tart, aromatic and crisp. Picked in late September.
Origin · Sherburne, Massachusetts, USA
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- tender
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- subacid, aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour faintly flushed and striped redBackground colour bright yellow
- Flesh
- yellow
- Shape
- tall, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- variable, usually large
- Appearance
- Surface ridges sometimes ribbed at eyeRusset pattern dotted
Origin & family
Where Porter began
Recorded origin
Sherburne, Massachusetts, USA
United States
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, aromatic
- ribbing
- sometimes ribbed at eye
- synonyms
- Jenning's, Jennings, Porter's, Yellow Summer Pearmain
- fruit size
- variable, usually large
- fruit shape
- tall, truncate-conic, convex
- over colour
- faintly flushed and striped red
- russet type
- dotted
- flesh colour
- yellow
- flesh texture
- fine, crisp, tender
- ground colour
- bright yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.