USDA-NPGS

Sweet Sixteen

Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.

Dessert

Introduced

1973

Origin

Minnesota, United States

Measured Phenotype

Brix: 12.3 °Bx

Each value is the highest-precedence :Assertion attached to this cultivar; full provenance (year, evidence type, confidence) is preserved in the graph.

Sweet Sixteen is a large dessert apple from Minnesota with a moderately acidic flavor and some russetting near the top. It was developed as a cross involving Malinda and Northern Spy, introduced in 1973, and is ready to pick in mid-October.

Flavor & Texture

moderately acidic

Best Uses

fresh_eating

Lineage

Parents

Northern Spy Malinda

Origin & History

Origin type: deliberate cross

References

USDA-NPGS: PI 589906
UK National Fruit Collection: 6221
Wikidata: Q41782050