Michaelmas Red

Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.

Dessert

Introduced

1945

Origin

England, United Kingdom

Measured Phenotype

Brix: 15.7 °Bx

Each value is the highest-precedence :Assertion attached to this cultivar; full provenance (year, evidence type, confidence) is preserved in the graph.

Michaelmas Red is an English dessert apple first introduced in 1945, bred from McIntosh and Worcester Pearmain. It features soft, juicy flesh with a sweet, vinous flavor and is best eaten from October through December after picking in mid-to-late September.

Flavor & Texture

sweetvinoussoftjuicy

Best Uses

fresh_eating

Lineage

Parents

Mcintosh Worcester Pearmain

Origin & History

Origin type: deliberate cross

References

USDA-NPGS: PI 589945
UK National Fruit Collection: 6466