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Pumpkin Sweet apple

Prized for baking, good for canning or eating. Yellow skin marbled with greenish-yellow and a brown flush. Sweet, nonacid flesh is crisp and juicy.

USDA identification images for Pumpkin Sweet

The identification paintings in the USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection span the years 1886 to 1942.

    Citation: U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705.

    Visitor reviews

    • 26 Jan 2023 
      Also known as Pound Sweet.
    • 09 Jul 2018  CALIFORNIA, United States
      If there any Canadians viewing this post, where did you get your trees/ scionwood? The one lady mentions Tillich Nursery, but they don't ship, as far as I can tell and I am a few thousand miles away.
    • 25 Oct 2015  MASSACHUSETTS, United States
      Also known as Pound Sweet. Very large green apple is all sweetness and no tartness. Susceptible to water core. Like biting into a sugary cucumber. Cooks down into the best apple butter you can make. - Carter Wilkie, Boston
    • 08 Mar 2012  OR, United States
      If this is the sme apple that we had on a farm years ago...it is a very large, very good eating and cooking apple

    Tree register

    United States

    United Kingdom

    Canada

    Spring blossom records for this variety

    2014 season

    • 8th May  2014  - tree owned by Dennis in Great Meadows, United States

    2011 season

    • March  2011  - tree owned by v in Lucknow, Canada

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    Harvest records for this variety

    2017 season

    • 3rd week October  2017  - tree owned by Samuel in Woodstock, United States

    2015 season

    • October  2015  - tree owned by Roger in Madison Heights, United States

    2011 season

    • 4th week August  2011  - tree owned by v in Lucknow, Canada

    Origins

    • Species: Malus domestica - Apple
    • Originates from: Connecticut, United States
    • Introduced: 1834
    • UK National Fruit Collection accession: 1943-004

    Identification

    • Country of origin: United States
    • Fruit size: Average
    • Fruit size: Large
    • Fruit shape: Round
    • Fruit size: Very large

    Using

    • Picking season: Late
    • Flavour quality: Average
    • Flavour style (apples): Sweeter
    • Food uses: Culinary
    • Food uses: Drying

    Growing

    • Fruit bearing: Tip-bearer

    Where to buy fresh fruit

    The following orchards grow Pumpkin Sweet:

    United States




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