Random Cultivar Of The Day
Red Astrachan
- From
- Sweden
- Description
- Early Summer apple. It is said to have been imported to Sweden from England in 1816.
- Flesh quality
- Fine, crisp, tender, juicy, brisk subacid, aromatic, sometimes slightly astringent.
- Flesh color
- white, red tinged
- Skin quality
- Thin, moderately tender
- Skin color
- crimson striped, red splashed, red, yellow, red striped, carmine, carmine striped, green, mottled, crimson, ribbed, russetted, blue
- Sizes
- large, medium
- Shape
- round, unequal sides, oblate, conical, ununiform
- General quality
- Good to very good in quality.
- Uses
- dessert, home, culinary
- Eating season starts in
- July
- Eating season ends in
- September
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 178.