Apple: Winter Banana

Sweet, crisp, highly fragrant, with a noticeable taste of Banana!

• Vigour: Medium
• Precociousness: High
• Resistances: Unknown
• Size of fruit: Medium
• Flowering: Spring
• Fruiting: Early Autumn
• Cropping: Medium
• Ploidy: Diploid
• Fruit colour: Yellow, with some red blushing
• Flesh colour: Yellow
• Leaf colour: Green
• Parentage: Unknown
• Descendants: Criterion
• Biennialism: None observed
• Growth habit: Upright spreading (spur bearing)
• Self-fertile: No

Discovered as a chance seedling by David Flory in 1876, Cass County, Indiana (USA), and first marketed commercially in 1980 in 1890.

It's remarkable for it's strong smell (and to a lesser extent taste) of Banana's.
With it's crisp, melting texture that easily bruises, this apple is best as a dessert apple (or added to cider mixes).
Not suitable for storage, and should be eaten fresh.

NOTE: I have yet to try this apple directly, having only grafted it in 2021, and so have relied on others for information related to this variety.
This entry will be updated as the graft grows and bears.