Granny Smith
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by Mrs Thomas Smith, Ryde, New South Wales, Australia. Trees were known to be fruiting in 1868. Mrs Smith was born in Peasmarsh, Sussex in 1800 and emigrated to Australia in 1838. Fruits have firm, rather coarse-textured, juicy flesh with a subacid and refreshing flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid, moderately sweet
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular, to truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 64 mm
- Russet type
- some fine netted russet
- Flesh colour
- greenish to yellowish white
- Fruit height
- 57 mm
- Flesh texture
- hard, crisp
- Ground colour
- green to greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 72.14 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 69.58 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- firm-very firm
- Juiciness
- dry
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Greenish
- Ground colour
- Whitish green
- Over colour amount
- very low
- Over colour pattern
- mottled/washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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