Applevariety
Prairie Spy
A dense, late-season apple, good for baking.
Origin · Minnesota, United States
Released 1940
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness StrongSurface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 68.00 mmHeight 57.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges absent
Origin & family
Where Prairie Spy began
Recorded origin
Minnesota
United States
- Institution
- University of Minnesota
- Released
- 1940
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 68.00 mm
- height
- 57.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- absent
- firmness
- firm
- coarseness
- fine
- greasiness
- Strong
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.