Applevariety
Summer Rose
Also known as French Reinette +11
French Reinette · Harvest Apple · Lippencott's Early · Lippencott's Eary · Lippincot's Early · Lippincott · Lippincott's Early · Lodge's Early · Wolman's Harvest · Woolman's Early · Woolman's Harvest · Woolman's Striped Harvest
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat-round in shape; mildly tart. Picked in late August.
Origin · New Jersey, USA
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- tender
- Flavour
- slightly subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed orange-red, streaked carmineSkin texture dottedBackground colour very pale greenish yellow
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 59-71 mmFruit height 51-58 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges sometimes slightly ribbed at eyeRusset pattern occasional russet patches
Origin & family
Where Summer Rose began
Recorded origin
New Jersey, USA
United States
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- slightly subacid
- ribbing
- sometimes slightly ribbed at eye
- synonyms
- French Reinette, Harvest Apple, Lippencott's Early, Lippencott's Eary, Lippincot's Early, Lippincott, Lippincott's Early, Lodge's Early, Wolman's Harvest, Woolman's Early, Woolman's Harvest, Woolman's Striped Harvest
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 59-71 mm
- over colour
- flushed orange-red, streaked carmine
- russet type
- occasional russet patches
- flesh colour
- white
- fruit height
- 51-58 mm
- skin texture
- dotted
- flesh texture
- tender, fine
- ground colour
- very pale greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.