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Monroe
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1910 by Richard Wellington at New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, New York, USA. Introduced in 1947. Fruits have fine, soft, cream flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Jonathan x Rome Beauty
- Father to:
- Burgundy
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 57.00mm 2
- Width
- 69.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Brown 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- streaked 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1951 - 146
- Accession name
- Monroe
- Flowering time ›››
- 7th May10% flowering
11th MayFull (80%) flowering
18th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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