Applevariety
Redhook
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, oblong in shape, raised in 1923 and introduced in 1938; mildly tart and soft. Picked in late August.
Origin · New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA
Released 1938
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- subacid, scented
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour almost covered dark red flush and darker streaksSkin texture heavy bloomBackground colour pale greenish yellow
- Flesh
- white, often tinged red especially at calyx, highly scented
- Shape
- tall to intermediate, sometimes flat, conic to truncate-conic, sometimes asymmetric
- Size
- largeFruit width 71-80 mmFruit height 60-70 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges strongly ribbed at eye, unevenly ribbed on bodyRusset pattern russet dots
Origin & family
Where Redhook began
Recorded origin
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA
United States
- Released
- 1938
Redhook’s family
5 varieties · 4 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Redhook
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA, United States
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, scented
- ribbing
- strongly ribbed at eye, unevenly ribbed on body
- parentage
- McIntosh x Carlton
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- tall to intermediate, sometimes flat, conic to truncate-conic, sometimes asymmetric
- fruit width
- 71-80 mm
- over colour
- almost covered dark red flush and darker streaks
- russet type
- russet dots
- flesh colour
- white, often tinged red especially at calyx, highly scented
- fruit height
- 60-70 mm
- skin texture
- heavy bloom
- flesh texture
- rather soft, fine
- ground colour
- pale greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.