Applevariety
Stonetosh
Also known as Stontosh
Stontosh
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, oblong in shape, raised in 1909 and introduced in 1923; sweet, tart and soft. Picked in early October.
Origin · Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada
Released 1923
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- soft
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- largeWidth 76.00 mmHeight 63.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Stonetosh began
Recorded origin
Experimental Farm, Ottawa
Canada
- Released
- 1923
Stonetosh’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Stonetosh
Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
McIntosh → StonetoshParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Oblong
- width
- 76.00 mm
- height
- 63.00 mm
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- soft
- synonyms
- Stontosh
- parentage
- Stone x McIntosh
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.