Excelsior (crab)
- From
- Excelsior
- Description
- Hybrid crabapple. Originated by Peter M. Gideon, Excelsior, Minn. " It came from seed of Wealthy which had a chance to be crossed with the Cherry Crab and also the Oldenburg"
- Flesh quality
- firm, a little coarse, crisp, juicy, subacid, with some Siberian crab flavor yet agreeable for dessert use, good to very good in quality.
- Flesh color
- white
- Skin quality
- smooth
- Skin color
- red, yellow, red blushed
- Sizes
- very large
- Shape
- round, ovate, symmetrical, oblate
- Uses
- dessert, culinary
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 254.