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Ames
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised at Iowa Agricultural Experimental Station, Ames, Iowa, U.S.A by H.L. Lantz. It was introduced in the 1920s. Fruits have soft, fine, juicy flesh with a sweet, vinous flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Allen's Choice x Perry Russet
- Shape
- Globose conical 2
- Size
- small 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- high-very high 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1922 - 020
- Accession name
- Ames
- Flowering time ›››
- 1st May10% flowering
6th MayFull (80%) flowering
13th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early September 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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