Description
- Harvest: Late
- Description: Semi-spur bearer. Medium to large fruit
- Skin: Yellow base flushed with orange and striped red
- Vigour: V3 Flowering
- Group: 2
- Pollination: Triploid
- Taste: Firm and juicy flesh with sweet to sub-acid flavour and aromatic
- Storage: 3 months or more
- Use: Cider and cooking
- Background: A chance seedling discovered in Massachusetts, USA, 1740. Usually a productive and vigorous tree. Often a biennial bearer. A very popular old American apple variety, widely grown for culinary use, and a good keeper
- Synonyms: Woodpecker Provenance