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Arthur Turner
Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.
Culinary
Measured Phenotype
- Brix
- 11.0 °Bx
- Fruit height
- 72.5 mm
- Fruit width
- 83.0 mm
source: GRIN
source: NFC
source: NFC
Each value is the highest-precedence :Assertion attached to this cultivar; full provenance (year, evidence type, confidence) is preserved in the graph.
A large, handsome culinary apple with yellow skin flushed brown-red, introduced in 1914 by Charles Turner. The white flesh is slightly acidic and bakes very well, making it an excellent early winter cooking variety with good fertility and moderate growth habit.
Flavor & Texture
subacidcoarse_graineddry
Best Uses
cookingbaking_pie
Lineage
Parents
Origin & History
- Status
- commercial
- Origin type
- deliberate cross
- Original breeder
- Charles Turner
slightly acid
References
- USDA-NPGS
- PI 589686
- UK National Fruit Collection
- 224
- Wikidata
- Q41775242
- MUNQ ID
- 2063