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George Carpenter
Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.
Dessert
Measured Phenotype
- Fruit height
- 64.0 mm
- Fruit width
- 70.0 mm
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.
George Carpenter is a dessert apple developed in Surrey in 1902 from a cross of Blenheim Orange and King of the Pippins. It features white, juicy flesh with a sweet, aromatic flavor and is best eaten fresh from October through December.
Flavor & Texture
sweetaromaticjuicy
Best Uses
fresh_eating
Lineage
Origin & History
- Origin type
- deliberate cross
References
- UK National Fruit Collection
- 2238
- Wikidata
- Q41777328