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Minnehaha

Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession

Raised at the University of Minnesota Fruit Breeding Farm, Excelsior. Introduced in 1920. Fruits have rather soft, coarse flesh with a subacid, slightly sweet flavour.

Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Picking time
Late September
Flowering
5th May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 16th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
Size
medium-large
Type
Dessert
Shape
Flat globose
Width
73.00 mm
Height
62.50 mm
Russet
very low
Ribbing
very weak
Firmness
soft
Coarseness
coarse
Over colour
Dark Red
Flesh colour
Greenish
Ground colour
Yellow
Over colour pattern
streaked

Source · National Fruit Collection

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