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Cherry
Turkey Heart 
Cherry
Annabella 
Apple
Baldwin 
Apple
Rall's Janet 
Apple
Nectarapple 
SummaryHeart-shaped. Very firm, moderately juicy, fair quality. Stone medium. Recommended for canning.
Roundish. Firm fleshed.
A very popular old American apple variety, widely grown for culinary use, and a good keeper.
Pleasant flavor, flesh like McIntosh. Juicy.
Maroon skin colored apple with yellow undercolor. Skin is chewy like a nectarine, and displays unique cracking near the calyx lobe. Flavor and scent similar to a nectarine.

Identification

Turkey Heart
Annabella
Baldwin
Rall's Janet
Nectarapple
Fruit colourBlack
Dark Red
Red / Green

Red
Flesh colour

White to Cream, pale yellow


Fruit size

Variable


Fruit shape

Flat-round


Using

Turkey Heart
Annabella
Baldwin
Rall's Janet
Nectarapple
Flavor

Very good

Average
Flavour style

Sweet/Sharp


Ripening periodLate season
Mid season
Mid-Late season


Use/Keeping

3 months or more


Cooking result

Keeps shape


Growing

Turkey Heart
Annabella
Baldwin
Rall's Janet
Nectarapple
Picking




Cropping

Good


Vigour

Slightly large


PollinationFlowering group 5
Flowers Late season
Self-sterile
Flowering group 3
Flowers Mid season
Self-sterile
Flowering group 4
Flowers Mid-Late season
Self-sterile
Gardening skill

Average


ProblemsCanker - Some susceptibility
Fruit splitting - Very susceptible
Scab - Some susceptibility
Mildew - Some susceptibility
Fireblight - Some susceptibility
Cedar apple rust - Very resistant
Bitter pit - Some susceptibility

Other

Turkey Heart
Annabella
Baldwin
Rall's Janet
Nectarapple
Country of originUnited Kingdom
United Kingdom
United States

United States
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