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Macy
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by H.L. Lantz at Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station, Ames, Iowa, USA. It was introduced in the 1920s. Fruits have soft, cream flesh with a subacid to sweet flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Macey
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Northwestern Greening x Wealthy
- Shape
- Oblong 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 60.00mm 2
- Width
- 64.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- low 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- streaked 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1922 - 021
- Accession name
- Macy
- Flowering time ›››
- 8th May10% flowering
13th MayFull (80%) flowering
20th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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