Ohio Nonpareil
syn. Bellflower of the West, Cattall Apple, Cattell Apple, Myer's Nonpareil, Myers Nonpareil, Myers' Nonpareil, Non-Pareille de l'Ohio, Nonpareil, Red Bellflower, Rusty Core, Wells
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in the orchard of Mr Bowman, Massillon, Ohio, USA. It was described in 1848. Fruits have firm, crisp flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 30th April (10%) · 6th May (full) · 13th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 67-81 mm
- Over colour
- flushed pinkish orange streaked carmine
- Russet type
- dotted
- Flesh colour
- yellowish
- Fruit height
- 62-66 mm
- Skin texture
- slightly greasy, thin, tender
- Flesh texture
- firm, fairly fine, crisp
- Ground colour
- pale greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Globose
- Width
- 83.68 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 69.40 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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