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Encyclopedia > Spartan (apple)

The Spartan apple is an apple cultivar developed by Dr. R.C Palmer in 1926 at the Canadian Apple Research Station in Summerland, British Columbia, now known as the Pacific Agri-food Research Centre - Summerland.[1] The Spartan is notable for being the first new breed of apple produced from a formal scientific breeding program.[2] The apple is a cross between two North American varieties, the McIntosh and the Newtown Pippin. This article is about the tree and its fruit. ... Summerland (2003 population 11,179) is a town on the west side of Okanagan Lake in the interior of British Columbia, Canada. ... This article is about the apple; for other uses, see McIntosh/MacIntosh (disambiguation) The McIntosh (Mac) is an apple cultivar with red and green skin, a tart flavor and tender, white flesh. ...


Overview

The Spartan apple is considered a good all-purpose apple.[3] The apple is of medium size and has a bright red blush, but can have background patches of greens and yellows.[4]


See also

Granny Smith, an apple cultivar Over 7,500 cultivars of the apple are known. ... This table shows nutritional information about the apple. ...

Notes

  1. ^ Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Summerland - History The 20s and 30s. Retrieved on 2007-13-03.
  2. ^ Orange Pippin. Spartan apple. Retrieved on 2007-13-03.
  3. ^ The Cook's Thesaurus. Apples. Retrieved on 2007-14-03.
  4. ^ Galetta Nurseries. Apple Trees. Retrieved on 2007-14-03.
Apple cultivars

Ambrosia • Antonovka • Baldwin • Ben Davis • Blenheim Orange • Braeburn • Bramley • Cameo • Cortland • Cornish Gilliflower • Cox's Orange Pippin • Cripps Pink • Egremont Russet • Elstar • Flower of Kent • Fuji • Gala • Ginger Gold • Golden Delicious • Granny Smith • Gravenstein • Haralson • Honeycrisp • Idared • James Grieve • Jazz • Jonagold • Jonathan • Knobbed Russet • Macoun • McIntosh • Northern Spy • Paula Red • Pink Pearl • Pinova • Red Delicious • Rome • Spartan Download high resolution version (640x960, 70 KB) Apples are an all-American success story-each of us eats more than 19 pounds of them annually. ... Granny Smith, an apple cultivar Over 7,500 cultivars of the apple are known. ... Ambrosia is a cultivar of apple originating in British Columbia in the early 1980s. ... Antonovka is an late-fall/winter apple cultivar that was widely grown in the Soviet Union and, previously, in the Russian Empire. ... The Baldwin apple is a bright red winter apple, very good in quality, and easily shipped. ... The Ben Davis apple is an apple variety originating in the American South. ... Blenheim Orange is a cultivar of apple. ... The Braeburn is a cultivar of apple. ... The Bramley cooking apple (or Bramley`s seedling apple) is a type of apple which is almost invariably eaten cooked. ... The Cameo is a cultivar of apple, discovered by chance in a Dryden, Washington orchard in the 1987. ... Cortland is a type of apple. ... The Cornish Gilliflower is a cultivar of apple. ... Coxs Orange Pippin is a cultivar of apple. ... Cripps Pink is a cultivar variety of apple widely available in the Northern Hemisphere. ... Egremont Russet is a variety of dessert apple that is arguably the best of the russet-type apples, with a rich, nutty flavour and crisp, firm and fairly juicy flesh. ... The Elstar apple is an apple cultivar that was first developed in the Netherlands in the 1950s by crossing Golden Delicious and Ingrid Marie apples. ... The Flower of Kent is a large green variety of apple. ... Fuji Kiku on a tree The Fuji apple ( ふじ Fuji、ふじりんご Fuji ringo) is an apple cultivar developed by growers at the Tohoku Research Station in Morioka, Japan in the late 1930s and brought to market in 1962. ... Gala Gala is a cultivar of apple, with a mild and sweet flavor. ... Ginger Gold is a yellow apple variety which entered commerce in the 1980s, though the original seedling dates from the late 1960s. ... The Golden Delicious is a cultivar of apple with a yellow color. ... Granny Smith, or green apple, is an apple cultivar originating in Australia from 1868 from a chance seedling propagated by Sir Nicholas Birtles. ... Gravenstein is a variety of apple native to Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. ... The Haralson cultivar of apple was introduced by the Minnesota Horticulture Research Center in 1922. ... Honeycrispâ„¢ (Malus domestica Honeycrisp) is a modern cultivar of apple developed in Minnesota by the University of Minnesota Twin Cities at its Horticultural Research Center. ... Idared is a type of red apple from the United States. ... James Grieve is an old variety of apple. ... Jazz apples are a new brand of apple from New Zealand. ... Jonagold is a variety of Apple, a cross between Golden Delicious and Jonathon. ... The classic Jonathan apple. ... The Knobbed Russet Malus domestica (also known as Knobby Russet, Winter Russet or Old Maid’s Winter Apple) is a large green and yellow apple with an rough and black russet and unusually irregular, warty and knobbly surface. ... A Macoun apple Macoun apples are a cross between the McIntosh and Arkansas black varieties. ... This article is about the apple; for other uses, see McIntosh/MacIntosh (disambiguation) The McIntosh (Mac) is an apple cultivar with red and green skin, a tart flavor and tender, white flesh. ... The Northern Spy apple is a variety of apple native to upstate New York state popular for piemaking. ... Paula Red apple Paula Red is a natural mutation of the McIntosh apple that ripens late in the summer. ... The Pink Pearl apple is an apple cultivar developed in 1944 by Albert Etter, a northern California breeder. ... Pinova on a tree Pinova (or Corail) is an apple cultivar, a cross between a Golden Delicious and a Clivia; the latter is a cross between a Coxs Orange Pippin and a Duchess of Oldenburg. ... The Red Delicious is a cultivar of apple. ...

 

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