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Home » Fruit » Hard Fruit » Apples » All-Purpose Apples » Priscilla Apples

Priscilla Apples

Priscilla are medium-sized apples, with smooth pale yellow skin two-thirds covered with a bright, deep red flush.

Inside, the apples have off-white, tender, juicy, finely-textured flesh which is aromatic.

They have a sweet taste with a mild bit of tartness.

The fruit ripens in October / November.

U.S. Plant patent No.3,488.

Cooking Tips

All purpose for fresh-eating, pies, sauce, cider.

Storage Hints

Stores only one to three months.

History Notes

Priscilla Apples were developed by the cooperative program of Purdue, Rutgers and Illinois Universities from a cross between Starking Delicious apples and an experimental apple named “PRI 610-2” (whose parentage was McIntosh, Golden Delicious and Rome.)

Introduced 1972.

Language Notes

Named for the wife of F. D. Hovde, president of Purdue University.

Aka Co Op 4 Apples.

This page first published: Oct 7, 2006 · Updated: Jun 18, 2018.

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