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Carter's Blue
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Originated at Mount Meigs, near Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.A. Described in 1869. Fruits have fine, crisp flesh with a rich, sweet subacid, aromatic flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Lady Fitzpatrick
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- large 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Coarseness
- medium 2
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 2
Accession No.
1947 - 300
- Accession name
- Carter's Blue
- Flowering time ›››
- 2nd May10% flowering
7th MayFull (80%) flowering
15th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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