Aucuba
- Description
- Aucuba is not recommended for general planting because the fruit is second rate in size, appearance, and quality.
- Flesh quality
- firm, breaking, fine, tender, juicy, sprightly subacid with distinct aroma, good to very good.
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- smooth
- Skin color
- red, yellow, red striped, gray mottled, carmine striped, pink striped
- Sizes
- medium, above medium
- Shape
- round, unequal sides, oblate, uniform, conical
- Keeping quality
- Some of the fruit may keep until spring but it is apt to deteriorate in flavor and quality after midwinter.
- General quality
- Moderately attractive, medium size, and pretty good quality.
- Eating season starts in
- October
- Eating season ends in
- January
- Also known as
- Acuba-Leaved Reinette
- Acuba-Leaf Reinette
- Feuilles D'Aucuba
- Aucubaefolia
- Reinette a feuille d'Acuba
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 52.