Winesap
syn. American Wine Sop, American Wine-Sop, American Winesop, Banana, Henrick's Sweet, Holland's Red Winter, Pot Pie Apple, Potpie Apple, Red Sweet Wine Sop, Royal Red, Royal Red of Kentucky, Texan Red, Wine Sap, Wine Sop, Winesop, Winter Winesap
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in the U.S.A. First described in 1817. Fruits have firm, tender, coarse, yellowish white flesh with a sweet, subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye, sometimes on body
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- tall to intermediate, conic to truncate-conic, convex to straight
- Fruit width
- 61-78 mm
- Over colour
- flushed and striped dull red
- Russet type
- russet dots, some russet at base
- Flesh colour
- yellowish white
- Fruit height
- 53-69 mm
- Skin texture
- bloom, thick, smooth
- Flesh texture
- firm, tender, coarse
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- very weak
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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