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Welcome to the world's most extensive apples (pommes) database.
Information on over 7,000 apples is available here, all carefully researched and provided in a way that is easy to navigate.
Summary: An early fresh eating apple. Developed in the southeast United States.
Identification: Medium size, round and noticeably ribbed. The base colour is greenish yellow, blushed pink on the sun exposed face.
Characteristics: The flesh is yellow, fine-grained and crisp. Juicy and sweet with a slight tartness.
Uses: A sweet, early-season fresh-eating apple.
Origins: Cultivated from a seed planted in Rockingham County, North Carolina (U.S.A.) in the early 1900s.
Ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
Harvest: Starting early in the fourth period.
Harvest period: 4
Type(s): Dessert, Eating