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Home » Fruit » Hard Fruit » Apples » Fresh-Eating Apples » Carter’s Blue Apples

Carter’s Blue Apples

Carter’s Blue are medium to large-sized apples.

They have greenish-yellow skin flushed with dull red and covered with a bluish bloom.

Inside, they have white, crisp, juicy, fragrant flesh.

The fruit ripens in September.

Cooking Tips

For fresh-eating.

Storage Hints

Does not store well.

History Notes

Carter’s Blue Apples were being grown in the 1840’s in Mount Meigs Depot, Alabama, USA, by a Colonel Carter.

The apple was re-introduced to the American South by a Lee Calhoun of Pittsboro, North Carolina using scion wood obtained from the National Fruit Trust in Kent, England.

Other names

AKA: Lady Fitzpatrick Apples, Patton Apples

This page first published: Oct 7, 2006 · Updated: Jun 17, 2018.

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