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Palouse
type: Dessert
identification: Large, long conic with ribbed faces. The base colour is yellow, which is washed red on the sun-exposed face and marked with red lenticels on the shaded side. The stem is long and slender, set in a deep cavity. The calyx varies from partly open to tightly shut, set in a deep and pleated basin.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, crisp, firm. Juicy, sweet-sharp and highly aromatic.
origins: Transported as a pippin from the Mississippi Valley (U.S.A.) during the mid-1800s colonization of North America's fertile and temperate West Coast. Assumed to be a seedling of King of Tompkins County collected in the State of Illinois and planted in 1879 at Jake Arrasmith's farm east of Colfax, in the Palouse Valley of southeastern Washington. It was exhibited in 1889 at the Whitman County Fair by nurseryman George Ruedy of Colfax in Whitman County, Washington, where it took first place as the best seedling apple. Luckily the apple has never been lost, says fruit explorer David Benscoter of Chatteroy, Washington, and a local commercial apple grower still has many Palouse trees in his orchard today.
cold storage: Keeps up to three months
harvest: Starting early in the fifth period.
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 12
harvest period: 5
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