McLellan
syn. Lilac, M'Clellan's, M'Lellan, M'Lellan's, Mac-Lellan, MacLellan, Martin, Mc Lellan, McClelan, McClellan, Mek-Lellan
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in about 1780 in a seedling orchard at Woodstock, Connecticut, USA. Fruits have fairly firm, fine, very tender flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Tree
- upright
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Over colour
- flushed and mottled bright light red
- Flesh colour
- tinged yellow
- Flesh texture
- fairly firm and fine, very tender
- Ground colour
- pale yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- strong
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 80.19 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 71.86 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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