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Pumpkin Sweet
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Originated in the orchard of S. Lyman, Manchester, Connecticut, USA. Recorded in 1834. Fruits have firm, fairly crisp, yellow flesh with a sweet flavour.
- Synonyms:
- 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
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Ellipsoid 2
- Size
- large 2
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Brown 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 2
Accession No.
1943 - 004
- Accession name
- Pumpkin Sweet
- Flowering time ›››
- 9th May10% flowering
13th MayFull (80%) flowering
21st May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early October 1
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019