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Winesap
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Originated in the U.S.A. First described in 1817. Fruits have firm, tender, coarse, yellowish white flesh with a sweet, subacid flavour.
- Synonyms:
- American Wine Sop, American Wine-Sop, American Winesop, Banana, Henrick's Sweet, Holland's Red Winter, Pot Pie Apple, Potpie Apple, Red Sweet Wine Sop, Royal Red, Royal Red of Kentucky, Texan Red, Wine Sap, Wine Sop, Winesop, Winter Winesap
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Mother to:
- Arkansas
- Mareda
- McLiver's Winesap
- Shenandoah
- Sports:
- Dermen Winesap
Accession No.
1951 - 103
- Accession name
- Winesap
- Flowering time ›››
- 4th May10% flowering
10th MayFull (80%) flowering
18th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late October 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- very weak 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped 1
- Russet
- very low 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 1
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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