The Sandow is an
apple
An apple is a round, edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus'' spp.). Fruit trees of the orchard or domestic apple (''Malus domestica''), the most widely grown in the genus, are agriculture, cultivated worldwide. The tree originated ...
cultivar
A cultivar is a kind of Horticulture, cultivated plant that people have selected for desired phenotypic trait, traits and which retains those traits when Plant propagation, propagated. Methods used to propagate cultivars include division, root a ...
that is an "open-pollinated seedling of
Northern Spy" that was created in 1912.
It has been described as an apple that is suitable for eating,
(as opposed to being a cooking apple). It has a crisp flesh that is juicy and sweet, with "bright scarlet stripes over red flush".
It typically ripens in mid-October, and bears fruit sooner relative to other apple cultivars.
It tends to flourish best in
zones 3-5
in the United States.
See also
*
List of apple cultivars
References
External links
National Fruit Collection page
Apple cultivars
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