Applevariety
Summerred
A dessert apple with cream flesh, ellipsoid in shape, introduced in 1964; wine-like, juicy, crisp and soft. Picked in late August.
Origin · Canada Department of Agriculture, Summerland, British Columbia, Canada
Released 1964
Taste & texture
- Firmness
- medium
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- vinous
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour Red
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Ellipsoid
- Size
- medium-large
Origin & family
Where Summerred began
Recorded origin
Canada Department of Agriculture, Summerland, British Columbia
Canada
- Released
- 1964
Family tree
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Ellipsoid
- crunch
- crisp
- firmness
- medium
- parentage
- Summerland x Unknown
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Cream
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.