September
Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.
Crab
A handsome crab apple of good quality suitable for both fresh eating and cooking. The fruit is medium to large with pale yellow or greenish skin striped with dark red, and ripens in September with a pleasant subacid, non-astringent flavor. The tree is vigorous, spreading, and comes into bearing young with reliable biennial crops.
Flavor & Texture
subacidmildtenderjuicy
Best Uses
fresh_eatingcooking
Lineage
Parents
Origin & History
- Status
- commercial
- Origin type
- open pollinated seedling
- Original breeder
- Peter M. Gideon
- First introduced
- 1888
subacid
References
- UK National Fruit Collection
- 5741