Applevariety
Wolf River
A cooking and dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat in shape, first recorded in 1875; tart, dry and soft. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Wolf River, Fremont County, Wisconsin, USA
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- soft
- Texture
- Flesh grain medium-coarse
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness WeakSurface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour coverage high-very highSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- largeWidth 108.00 mmHeight 76.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Wolf River began
Recorded origin
Wolf River, Fremont County, Wisconsin, USA
United States
Wolf River’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Wolf River
Wolf River, Fremont County, Wisconsin, USA, United States
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Alexander → Wolf RiverParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary / Dessert
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 108.00 mm
- height
- 76.00 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- soft
- parentage
- Alexander x Unknown
- coarseness
- medium-coarse
- greasiness
- Weak
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.