Applevariety
Quinte
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, oblong in shape, introduced in 1964; sweet. Picked in mid-August.
Origin · Experimental Farm, Smithfield, Ontario, Canada
Released 1964
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Yellow
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- medium
Origin & family
Where Quinte began
Recorded origin
Experimental Farm, Smithfield, Ontario
Canada
- Released
- 1964
Quinte’s family
7 varieties · 6 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Quinte
Experimental Farm, Smithfield, Ontario, Canada
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Oblong
- parentage
- Crimson Beauty (Canada) x Red Melba
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.