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Dark-red skin typical of a fully mature Arkansas black apple. Harvested in Rockingham County, Virginia, in 2022. The Arkansas Black is an apple cultivar that originated in the mid-19th Century in Benton County, Arkansas. [1] It is not the same as the cultivar 'Arkansas' or 'Arkansas Black Twig'. [1]
The McIntosh (/ ˈ m æ k ɪ n ˌ t ɒ ʃ / MAK-in-tosh), McIntosh Red, or colloquially the Mac, is an apple cultivar, the national apple of Canada. The fruit has red and green skin, a tart flavour, and tender white flesh, which ripens in late September. It is considered an all-purpose apple, suitable both for cooking and eating raw.
The five petals are white, more or less oblong and 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) long with irregular edges. Flowering occurs from November to December and the fruit is a dark pink to red, spherical to oval berry , 25–30 mm (0.98–1.18 in) long, 15–40 mm (0.59–1.57 in) in diameter containing a single seed surrounded by white flesh.
The 'Red Delicious' originated at an orchard in 1872 as "a round, blushed yellow fruit of surpassing sweetness". [4] [5] Stark Nurseries held a competition in 1892 [6] to find an apple to replace the 'Black Ben Davis' apple. The winner was a red and yellow striped apple sent by Jesse Hiatt, a farmer in Peru, Iowa, who called it
Three ripe Paula Red apples. Paula Red (or Paulared) Discovered by Lewis Arends near Sparta, Michigan in 1960. It was near other wild apple seedlings growing near a ravine where apples had been dumped. Tests run by experts show its parents to be McIntosh and Duchess. Paulareds mature after Duchess and before McIntosh.
The Jersey Black apple is an old North American variety of apple, or Malus domestica; it is thought to have originated c. 1817, but has fallen somewhat out of favor. It is also known as the Black Apple because its skin is very dark red, appearing almost black. It is a dessert apple with sweet white firm flesh.