Jersey Black
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Thought to have originated in New Jersey, USA. It was recorded in 1817. Fruits have crisp, rather coarse flesh with a sweet, subacid, aromatic flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Black American, Black Apple, Black Apple of America, Black Jersey, Dodge's Black, Small Black
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Father to:
- Macoun
Accession No.
1952 - 130
- Accession name
- Jersey Black
- Flowering time ›››
- 6th May10% flowering
11th MayFull (80%) flowering 18th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Late October 1
- Size
- large-very large 1
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 1
- Height
- 73.45 mm 1
- Width
- 82.23 mm 1
- Ribbing
- strong 1
- Crown
- medium-strong 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium-high 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- mottled/solid flush 1
- Russet
- very low 1
- Crunch
- crumbly 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 1

- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
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