Applevariety
Saint Lawrence
Also known as Corse's St. Lawrence +8
Corse's St. Lawrence · Lavrentii · Montreal · Saint Laurent · Saint-Laurence · Saint-Lawrence · Sanct-Lorenz Apfel · St. Lawrence · York and Lancaster
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round in shape; mildly tart. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Montreal, Canada
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- tender
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour up to half flushed pinkish red with carmine dots and stripesSkin texture smooth, dryBackground colour dull yellowish green
- Flesh
- very white
- Shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 69-79 mmFruit height 52-61 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye, slightly on bodyRusset pattern sometimes russet at base and russet dots
Origin & family
Where Saint Lawrence began
Recorded origin
Montreal
Canada
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye, slightly on body
- synonyms
- Corse's St. Lawrence, Lavrentii, Montreal, Saint Laurent, Saint-Laurence, Saint-Lawrence, Sanct-Lorenz Apfel, St. Lawrence, York and Lancaster
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 69-79 mm
- over colour
- up to half flushed pinkish red with carmine dots and stripes
- russet type
- sometimes russet at base and russet dots
- flesh colour
- very white
- fruit height
- 52-61 mm
- skin texture
- smooth, dry
- flesh texture
- tender
- ground colour
- dull yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.