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State Fair
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1949 by W.H. Alderman at the University of Minnesota Horticulture Research Centre, Excelsior, USA. Fruits are crisp and juicy with an aromatic flavour. A very hardy variety, trees withstanding winter temperatures of minus 40
- Synonyms:
- Statefair
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Mantet x Oriole
Accession No.
1984 - 027
- Accession name
- Statefair
- Flowering time ›››
- 4th May10% flowering
11th MayFull (80%) flowering
20th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late August 1
- Size
- small-medium 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- medium-strong 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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