Applevariety
Redwell
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin, ellipsoid in shape, raised in about 1911 and introduced in 1946; mildly tart and soft. Picked in late September.
Origin · University of Minnesota Fruit Breeding Farm, Excelsior, Minnesota, USA
Released 1946
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Ellipsoid
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 71.50 mmHeight 63.00 mm
- Appearance
- low-mediumSurface ridges weak-medium
Origin & family
Where Redwell began
Recorded origin
University of Minnesota Fruit Breeding Farm, Excelsior, Minnesota, USA
United States
- Released
- 1946
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Ellipsoid
- width
- 71.50 mm
- height
- 63.00 mm
- russet
- low-medium
- ribbing
- weak-medium
- firmness
- soft
- parentage
- Scott's Winter x Unknown
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.