Applevariety
Thurso
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, oblong in shape, raised in 1898 and introduced in 1908; crisp. Picked in late September.
Origin · Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada
Released 1908
Taste & texture
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour coverage highSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- mediumWidth 58.50 mmHeight 56.50 mm
Origin & family
Where Thurso began
Recorded origin
Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa
Canada
- Released
- 1908
Thurso’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Thurso
Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Northern Spy → ThursoParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Oblong
- width
- 58.50 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 56.50 mm
- ribbing
- medium
- parentage
- Northern Spy x Unknown
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour amount
- high
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.