Carter's Blue
syn. Lady Fitzpatrick
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated at Mount Meigs, near Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.A. Described in 1869. Fruits have fine, crisp flesh with a rich, sweet subacid, aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 2nd May (10%) · 7th May (full) · 15th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Crunch
- crisp
- Ribbing
- medium
- Coarseness
- medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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