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Missouri
Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.
Dessert
Measured Phenotype
- Fruit height
- 68.2 mm
- Fruit width
- 70.1 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 well-known market apple from the Middle West with good color and keeping quality. The flesh is firm, fine-grained, and briskly subacid with fair to good quality. It comes into bearing early and is a heavy cropper, though trees become less productive with age and are often used as fillers between permanent plantings.
Flavor & Texture
subacidfirmfine_grained
Best Uses
fresh_eating
Lineage
Parents
Origin & History
- Status
- commercial
- Origin type
- open pollinated seedling
- Original breeder
- Brinkley Hornsby
briskly subacid
References
- UK National Fruit Collection
- 4004
- Wikidata
- Q41779466