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Kingston Black
Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.
Cider
Measured Phenotype
- Brix
- 10.0 °Bx
- Titratable acidity
- 3.97 g/L
- Juice pH
- 3.80
- Fruit height
- 45.8 mm
- Fruit width
- 52.9 mm
source: GRIN
source: GRIN
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.
Kingston Black is a small, roundish cider apple extensively grown in Somersetshire, where it is considered the most valuable cider apple of the period. The fruit has pale yellow skin with red striping, very dark red and almost black stripes on the sun-exposed side, and is thickly strewed with grey-russet dots. The flesh is white, stained with red beneath the skin, tender, juicy, and pleasantly sweet-flavored, keeping until Christmas.
Flavor & Texture
sweettenderjuicy
Best Uses
cider_blend
Where to Pick
- Freedom Run WineryNiagara CountyU-Pick
- Buried Barrel Hard CiderWyoming County
- Rootstock Cider & SpiritsWayne County
- Three Falls CiderWyoming CountyU-Pick
- Lagoner Farms / Embark Craft CiderworksWayne County
Origin & History
- Status
- commercial
sweetpleasantly flavored
Disease Resistance
- Fire blight
- highly susceptible
Cornell Apple Variety Database.
References
- USDA-NPGS
- PI 589703
- UK National Fruit Collection
- 3250
- Wikidata
- Q41778691
- Cited authority (Hogg 1851)
- Hort