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Home » Fruit » Hard Fruit » Apples » Salad Apples » Creston Apples

Creston Apples

Creston are large-sized apples. The skin is yellowish-green with some stripes of red, with occasional russeting around the stem.

Inside, the apples have juicy, yellowish flesh with sweet, good flavour.

The tree can be a biennial bearer.

US Plant Patent Number 10,739.

Cooking Tips

Flesh resists browning when cut open.

Storage Hints

In storage, can soften and skin can get greasy.

History Notes

Creston Apples were developed from a cross between Golden Delicious with an apple referred to as “NJ 381049”, done by Agriculture Canada’s Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre in Summerland, British Columbia.

Sources

Brown, Susan and Kevin Maloney. Apple Cultivars: A Geneva Perspective. New York Fruit Quarterly, Volume 10, Number 2. 2002. Page 23.

C.R. Hamson, H.A. Quamme, R.M. MacDonald, W.D. Lane, K.O. Lapins. ‘SILKEN’, ‘CRESTON’ AND ‘CHINOOK’: THREE NEW APPLES FROM CANADA. 1999. Acta Hort. (ISHS) 538:711-714.

Farquharson, Vanessa. The invention of an apple: The Red Prince. Toronto: National Post: 20 February 2010.

Wilson, Ken. New Apple Cultivars: Creston. Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food & Rural Affairs. 15 June 2001.

This page first published: Sep 21, 2010 · Updated: Jun 17, 2018.

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