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Granny Smith
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by Mrs Thomas Smith, Ryde, New South Wales, Australia. Trees were known to be fruiting in 1868. Mrs Smith was born in Peasmarsh, Sussex in 1800 and emigrated to Australia in 1838. Fruits have firm, rather coarse-textured, juicy flesh with a subacid and refreshing flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- French Crab x Unknown
- Mother to:
- Lady Williams
- Red Granny Smith
Accession No.
1976 - 145
- Accession name
- Granny Smith (LA 73A)
- Flowering time ›››
- 6th May10% flowering
10th MayFull (80%) flowering
18th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Height
- 69.58 mm 1
- Width
- 72.14 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak 1
- Crown
- weak-medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish green 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- very low 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- mottled/washed out 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Greasiness
- Medium 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Juiciness
- dry 1
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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