Applevariety
Spencer
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, ellipsoid in shape, raised in 1926 and introduced in 1959; sweet, wine-like, juicy and crisp. Picked in early October.
Origin · Dominion Experiment Station, Summerland, British Columbia, Canada
Released 1959
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Flavour
- vinous
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour coverage low-mediumSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Ellipsoid
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 69.50 mmHeight 65.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Spencer began
Recorded origin
Dominion Experiment Station, Summerland, British Columbia
Canada
- Released
- 1959
Spencer’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Spencer
Dominion Experiment Station, Summerland, British Columbia, Canada
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Ellipsoid
- width
- 69.50 mm
- height
- 65.00 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- weak
- parentage
- McIntosh x Golden Delicious
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour amount
- low-medium
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Other apple varieties
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 On the tree at the UK National Fruit Collection.