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Jersey Black
Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.
Dessert
Measured Phenotype
- Fruit height
- 73.5 mm
- Fruit width
- 82.2 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.
A dark red to almost-black dessert apple of medium size with a pleasant flavor. The flesh is yellowish-white, juicy, and crisp with a subacid to mildly sweet, aromatic character, though not exceptional in quality. It is an old variety now practically obsolete, believed to be identical with the Black Apple described by Coxe in 1817, and keeps from November through January or February.
Flavor & Texture
balancedfine_grained
Best Uses
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4 historical watercolors from the USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection (1886–1942) included in the gallery above. Public domain.
Lineage
Offspring
Origin & History
- Status
- extinct
subacidaromatic
References
- UK National Fruit Collection
- 3011
- Wikidata
- Q6184756