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.