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Monroe
Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.
Dessert
Measured Phenotype
- Brix
- 12.4 °Bx
- Fruit height
- 57.0 mm
- Fruit width
- 69.0 mm
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.
Monroe is a red dessert apple developed at Geneva, New York, introduced in 1949 from a cross of Jonathan and Rome Beauty. It is best eaten fresh from November through January.
Best Uses
fresh_eating
Lineage
Parents
Origin & History
- Origin type
- deliberate cross
Disease Resistance
- Apple scab
- susceptible
- Fire blight
- highly susceptible
- Powdery mildew
- highly susceptible
- Leaf spot
- susceptible
Cornell Apple Variety Database.
References
- USDA-NPGS
- PI 588772
- UK National Fruit Collection
- 4042
- Wikidata
- Q41779493