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Arkansas
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Triploid. Originated near Rhea Mills, Arkansas, U.S.A. from seed sown in about 1833. Introduced in about 1868. Fruits have firm, cream flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Arkansaw, Mammoth Black Twig
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Winesap x Unknown
Accession No.
1955 - 093
- Accession name
- Arkansas
- Flowering time ›››
- 4th May10% flowering
10th MayFull (80%) flowering
18th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late October 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Globose 1
- Height
- 63.95 mm 1
- Width
- 76.39 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium-high 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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