Applevariety

Primate

Also known as Belle Rose +15

Belle Rose · Early Baldwin · Early Tart Harvest · Harvest · Highland Pippin · Jenkin's Summer Pippin · July Apple · North American Best · Power's · Powers · Primates · Rough and Ready · Ryerson · Scott · Sour Harvest · Zour Bough

A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-green skin, round-conical in shape; mildly tart, aromatic and crisp. Picked in early September.

Taste & texture

Acidity
subacid
Scent
aromatic
Firmness
tender
Bite
crisp
Flavour
subacid, aromatic
Used for
Dessert apple

How to spot it

Skin
Surface colour often slightly flushed redBackground colour light green to yellowish white
Flesh
whitish
Shape
flat to intermediate, conic, convex
Size
medium
Appearance
Surface ridges often ribbed

Origin & family

Field notes

Original source notes
Fruit & tree
flavour
subacid, aromatic
ribbing
often ribbed
synonyms
Belle Rose, Early Baldwin, Early Tart Harvest, Harvest, Highland Pippin, Jenkin's Summer Pippin, July Apple, North American Best, Power's, Powers, Primates, Rough and Ready, Ryerson, Scott, Sour Harvest, Zour Bough
fruit size
medium
fruit shape
flat to intermediate, conic, convex
over colour
often slightly flushed red
flesh colour
whitish
flesh texture
fine, crisp, tender
ground colour
light green to yellowish white
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