USDA-NPGS
Sweet McIntosh
Malus domestica (Suckow) Borkh.
Dessert
Measured Phenotype
- Brix
- 11.9 °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.
Sweet McIntosh is a dessert apple developed in Geneva, New York in 1922 from a cross between Lawver and McIntosh parents. It is suitable for both fresh eating and baking.
Best Uses
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1 historical watercolor from the USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection (1886–1942) included in the gallery above. Public domain.
Lineage
Origin & History
- Origin type
- deliberate cross
References
- USDA-NPGS
- PI 589020