Fruit is round and firm. Can be held a month or so in storage. Tree bears annually and requires at least three pickings. A garden variety dessert apple raised from open-pollinated Cherry Crab at Excelsior, Minnesota around 1860. An extremely hardy splashed skin on pale whitish-green to pale yellow ground.
Flesh is white, tinged pink beneath the skin, soft, coarse-textured, juicy, and sweet.
Ripe in mid-October. Introduced before 1817 and still widely grown in southern fruit areas. Fruit is outstanding for both eating and cooking. Ripens in mid-October to a deep red. Also known as Stayman.