Pumpkin Sweet
syn. Lyman's Large Yellow, Lyman's Pumpkin Sweet, Pound Sweet, Pumpkin Sweeting, Rhode Island Sweet, Round Sweet, Sweet Lyman's Pumpkin, Sweet Pumpkin, Vermont Pumpkin Sweet, Vermont Sweet, Yankee Apple
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in the orchard of S. Lyman, Manchester, Connecticut, USA. Recorded in 1834. Fruits have firm, fairly crisp, yellow flesh with a sweet flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 9th May (10%) · 13th May (full) · 21st May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Shape
- Ellipsoid
- Crunch
- crisp
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Brown
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Yellow
Source · National Fruit Collection
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