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Black Warrior
type: Culinary, Dessert
synonyms: Sometimes Warrior but this is also sometimes used as a synonym for Mitchell Red .
summary: Originating in the American southeast in the mid-1880s, the Black Warrior is now considered to be a lost apple.
identification: Medium size, round tending to round-conic. The base colour is green, often with a pale reddish blush on the sun-exposed face over which is a russet network. Scattered greyish lenticels. The stem is short and thick, set in a narrow and deep, russetted cavity. The calyx is closed and set in a somewhat deep and narrow basin.
characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured, dense. Somewhat dry and sweet with a spicy, lightly tart after-taste.
origins: Widely grown in the southeastern United States during the last half of the 1800s. Thought to have disappeared during the early 1900s. The late Lee Calhoun, author of "Old Southern Apples" (published 1995, 2011) recornized this as an apple widely grown in Alabama (U.S.A.)
ploidism: Self sterile.
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