Werribee Park Heritage Orchard
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Granny Smith
Granny Smith
Granny Smith
Price range: $5.00 through $35.00
Description
- Harvest: Late
- Description: Spur and partial tip bearer, large sized tall and conical shaped fruit
- Skin: Green mottled and at late harvest will be yellow and greasy
- Flesh: Pale green-white
- Vigour: V3
- Flowering Group: 3
- Pollination: Golden Delicious, Jonathan, Cox Orange Pippin, Pink Lady and Red Delicious
- Taste: Crisp, juicy, tart and acidic flesh; excellent flavour. Develops a sweeter flavour if left on the tree
- Storage: Keeps very well
- Uses: Eating and cooking
- Background: Chance seedling in Maria Ann (Granny) Smith’s backyard at Eastwood, NSW, Australia, prior to 1868 possibly from a cross between a cultivated apple and a crab apple. A vigorous, very productive upright tree and susceptible to mildew. A robust apple that keeps its shape and flavour when baked, great for cooking
Additional information
| Product Type | Scion, Tree |
|---|---|
| Origin | Australia |
| Product Year | 1868 |
| Harvest | Very L |
| Uses | Cooking, Eating |
| Vigour | V3 |
| Flowering Group | 3 |
| Cooking Uses | Pie |
| Tip or Spur | Spur & partial tip |
| Description | Australia, Cox Orange Pippin, Granny Smith Apple Harvest: Late Description: Spur and partial tip bearer, great for cooking., Jonathan, juicy, large sized tall and conical shaped fruit. Skin – green mottled and at late harvest will be yellow and greasy. Flesh – pale green-white. Vigour: V3 Flowering group: 3 Pollination: Golden Delicious, NSW, Pink Lady and Red Delicious. Taste: Crisp, prior to 1868 possibly from a cross between a cultivated apple and a crab apple. A vigorous, very productive upright tree and susceptible to mildew. A robust apple that keeps its shape and flavour when baked |