Puritan
Dessert
Puritan is a red apple with white flesh developed in Massachusetts through a deliberate cross of McIntosh and Red Astrachan. Released in 1953, it is a medium-sized dessert apple suitable for fresh eating and harvests around the same time as Early McIntosh.
Best Uses
fresh_eating
Lineage
Parents
Origin & History
- Origin type
- deliberate cross
Disease Resistance
- Apple scab
- susceptible
- Fire blight
- highly susceptible
- Powdery mildew
- susceptible
- Cedar-apple rust
- susceptible
Cornell Apple Variety Database.