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Early McIntosh
Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.
Dessert
Measured Phenotype
- Brix
- 11.8 °Bx
- Fruit height
- 52.0 mm
- Fruit width
- 58.5 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.
Early McIntosh is a dessert apple developed in Geneva, New York in 1923 from a cross of Yellow Transparent and McIntosh. It offers excellent flavor and is ready for harvest in early August.
Flavor & Texture
excellent
Best Uses
fresh_eating
6 historical watercolors from the USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection (1886–1942) included in the gallery above. Public domain.
Lineage
Offspring
Origin & History
- Origin type
- deliberate cross
Disease Resistance
- Apple scab
- susceptible
- Fire blight
- moderately resistant
- Powdery mildew
- moderately resistant
- Cedar-apple rust
- resistant
Cornell Apple Variety Database.
References
- USDA-NPGS
- PI 589023
- UK National Fruit Collection
- 1758
- Wikidata
- Q41776595