Applevariety
Sharon
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat in shape, raised in 1906 and introduced in 1922; sweet and crisp. Picked in early October.
Origin · Iowa State Agricultural Experiment Station, Ames, USA
Released 1922
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- mediumWidth 61.50 mmHeight 51.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Sharon began
Recorded origin
Iowa State Agricultural Experiment Station, Ames, USA
United States
- Released
- 1922
Sharon’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Sharon
Iowa State Agricultural Experiment Station, Ames, 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
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 61.50 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 51.00 mm
- ribbing
- weak
- parentage
- McIntosh x Glogerovka
- coarseness
- fine
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.