Applevariety
Spartan
A large dessert apple with very-white flesh and yellow skin, raised in 1926 and introduced in 1936; mildly tart, wine-like, juicy and crisp.
Origin · Dominion Experiment Station, Summerland, British Columbia, Canada
Released 1936
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour almost completely flushed deep purplish red with indistinct stripesSkin texture bloom, thickBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- very white
- Shape
- flat, rectangular to conic, convex, sometimes asymmetric
- Size
- largeFruit width 71 mmFruit height 63 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed base to apex
Origin & family
Where Spartan began
Recorded origin
Dominion Experiment Station, Summerland, British Columbia
Canada
- Released
- 1936
Spartan’s family
5 varieties · 4 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Spartan
Dominion Experiment Station, Summerland, British Columbia, Canada
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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On the label
Produce label codes recorded for Spartan
4177417841794180
Organic labels add a leading 9.
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- sports
- Hunter Spartan
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed base to apex
- mother to
- Nova Easygro
- parentage
- McIntosh x Yellow Newtown Pippin
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular to conic, convex, sometimes asymmetric
- fruit width
- 71 mm
- over colour
- almost completely flushed deep purplish red with indistinct stripes
- flesh colour
- very white
- fruit height
- 63 mm
- skin texture
- bloom, thick
- flesh texture
- firm, crisp, fine
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.