Picta Striata (crab)
- Description
- Crabapple.
- Flesh quality
- firm, a little coarse, tender, juicy, somewhat astringent, sprightly subacid, good
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- thin, tender, smooth, rather glossy
- Skin color
- green-yellow, carmine blushed, carmine striped, crimson
- Sizes
- medium, above medium
- Shape
- round, irregular, ribbed, oblate
- Eating season starts in
- October
- Eating season ends in
- December
- Also known as
- Pieta
- Pieta Striata
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 263.