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Twenty Ounce

syn. Aurora, Cayuga Red Streak, Cayuga Redstreak, Coleman, de Dix-huit Onces, de Vin du Connecticut, Dix-huit Onces, Eighteen Ounce, Eighteen Ounce Apple, Gov. Seward's, Lima, Morgan's Favorite, Morgan's Favourite, Morgans Favorite, Pomme de Vin de Connecticut, Pomme de Vin du Connecticut, Pomme de Vingt-onces, Pomme rayee de Cayuga, Pomrne de Dix-huit Onces, Reinette de Vingt-Onces, Renet 20 untsii, Twenty Ounce Apple, Twenty Ounce Pippin, Twenty Ounces, Wine, Wine of Connecticut, Zwanzig Unzen, Zwanzig Unzen Apfel

Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession

Thought to have originated in either New York or Connecticut, USA. Brought to notice in about 1844. Fruits have coarse, moderately tender flesh with a subacid flavour.

Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Picking time
Early October
Flowering
6th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
Size
large
Type
Culinary / Dessert
Shape
Oblong
Russet
very low
Ribbing
weak-medium
Coarseness
coarse
Over colour
Red
Flesh colour
Yellowish
Ground colour
Yellow
Over colour pattern
mottled/splashed

Source · National Fruit Collection

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