Ames
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised at Iowa Agricultural Experimental Station, Ames, Iowa, U.S.A by H.L. Lantz. It was introduced in the 1920s. Fruits have soft, fine, juicy flesh with a sweet, vinous flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 1st May (10%) · 6th May (full) · 13th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- small
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- high-very high
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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