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Wolf River
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by W.A. Springer near Wolf River, Fremont County, Wisconsin, USA. First recorded in 1875. Fruits have white, tinged green, fine-textured, rather dry flesh with a moderately acid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Alexander x Unknown
- Shape
- Flat 2
- Size
- large 2
- Height
- 76.00mm 2
- Width
- 108.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- high-very high 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Russet
- low 2
- Greasiness
- Weak 2
- Coarseness
- medium-coarse 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1943 - 005
- Accession name
- Wolf River
- Flowering time ›››
- 6th May10% flowering
10th MayFull (80%) flowering
17th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid September 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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