Carter's Blue

A dual-purpose apple from 1840s Alabama with medium-to-large roundish fruit displaying green to greenish-yellow skin washed with dull red striping and a distinctive blue bloom. Offering crisp, juicy flesh with sweet, aromatic, mildly subacid flavor, it was once widespread in the American South before nearly vanishing; rediscovered in England in 1994 and reintroduced to America.

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Origin & History

Origin type

chance seedling

Known by

≥ 1840

References

UK National Fruit Collection

996

Wikidata

Q41775861