Applevariety
Sandow
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, flat-round in shape, introduced in 1935 and selected in 1912; sweet, tart and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Central Experiment Farm, Ottawa, Canada
Released 1935
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Size
- largeWidth 73.00 mmHeight 55.50 mm
Origin & family
Where Sandow began
Recorded origin
Central Experiment Farm, Ottawa
Canada
- Selected
- 1912
- Released
- 1935
Sandow’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Sandow
Central Experiment Farm, Ottawa, Canada
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat globose
- width
- 73.00 mm
- height
- 55.50 mm
- russet
- low
- sports
- Hunter Sandow
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Northern Spy x Unknown
- coarseness
- coarse
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Cream
- 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.