Black McIntosh
syn. Blackmack
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
An earlier colouring sport of McIntosh. Selected in 1928 by H. Simpson, Oliver, British Columbia, Canada. Introduced in 1930. Fruits have melting, juicy flesh with a vinous flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- fairly sweet
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 70 mm
- Over colour
- almost entiely flushed and striped crimson
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Fruit height
- 64 mm
- Flesh texture
- firm
- Ground colour
- pale yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 70.85 mm
- Height
- 62.72 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish green
- Over colour amount
- high
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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