Applevariety
Winter Banana
Also known as Banan zimnii +10
Banan zimnii · Banana · Banana de Iarna · Banane · Banane d'Hiver · Bananove zimni · Bananovoe · Flory · Teli banan · Zimna bananova · Zimnee bananovoe
A dessert apple with whitish-yellow skin, oblong in shape, raised in 1876 and introduced in 1890; sweet, aromatic, juicy, soft and medium-crisp. Picked in early October.
Origin · Adamsboro, Cross County, Indiana, USA
Released 1890
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- medium
- Bite
- medium-crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain medium-coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour PinkBackground colour Whitish Yellow
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- medium-large
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak-medium
Origin & family
Where Winter Banana began
Recorded origin
Adamsboro, Cross County, Indiana, USA
United States
- Released
- 1890
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Oblong
- crunch
- medium-crisp
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak-medium
- firmness
- medium
- synonyms
- Banan zimnii, Banana, Banana de Iarna, Banane, Banane d'Hiver, Bananove zimni, Bananovoe, Flory, Teli banan, Zimna bananova, Zimnee bananovoe
- coarseness
- medium-coarse
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Pink
- ground colour
- Whitish Yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.