Primate
syn. Belle Rose, Early Baldwin, Early Tart Harvest, Harvest, Highland Pippin, Jenkin's Summer Pippin, July Apple, North American Best, Power's, Powers, Primates, Rough and Ready, Ryerson, Scott, Sour Harvest, Zour Bough
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Thought to have originated with Calvin D. Bingham at Camillus, Onondaga County, New York, USA in about 1840. Fruits have crisp, fine, tender, whitish flesh with a subacid and aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 2nd May (10%) · 7th May (full) · 13th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid, aromatic
- Ribbing
- often ribbed
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, conic, convex
- Over colour
- often slightly flushed red
- Flesh colour
- whitish
- Flesh texture
- fine, crisp, tender
- Ground colour
- light green to yellowish white
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 78.80 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 67.85 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- strong
- Firmness
- soft
- Juiciness
- dry
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish green
- Over colour amount
- very low
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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