Monroe
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1910 by Richard Wellington at New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, New York, USA. Introduced in 1947. Fruits have fine, soft, cream flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 69.00 mm
- Height
- 57.00 mm
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Brown
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- streaked
Source · National Fruit Collection
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