Macoun
syn. Mekaun
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA by Richard Wellington. It was first described in 1918. Introduced in 1923. Fruits have crisp, tender, white flesh with a sweet, scented flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Flat
- Width
- 65.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 49.00 mm
- Ribbing
- weak
- 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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