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Milwaukee
Malus domestica (Suckow) Borkh.
Culinary
Measured Phenotype
- Brix
- 13.4 °Bx
source: GRIN
Each value is the highest-precedence :Assertion attached to this cultivar; full provenance (year, evidence type, confidence) is preserved in the graph.
Milwaukee is a winter apple of good size with clear yellow skin marked with bright red, resembling Oldenburg. Too briskly acid for dessert but suitable for culinary use and market, with firm, juicy, sprightly flesh. The tree is very hardy and healthy, coming into bearing young and bearing almost every year.
Flavor & Texture
subacidfirmcrisptenderjuicy
Best Uses
cooking
3 historical watercolors from the USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection (1886–1942) included in the gallery above. Public domain.
Lineage
Parents
Offspring
Origin & History
- Status
- unknown
- Origin type
- open pollinated seedling
- Original breeder
- George Jeffry
- Known by
- ≥ 1000
briskly acidsprightlybrisk subacid
References
- USDA-NPGS
- PI 589216