1 / 3Carter's Blue
Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.
Dual Purpose
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.
Flavor & Texture
sweetaromaticsubacidcrispjuicy
Best Uses
fresh_eatingcooking
Origin & History
- Origin type
- chance seedling
- Known by
- ≥ 1840
References
- UK National Fruit Collection
- 996
- Wikidata
- Q41775861