Also known as: Aurora, Blessing, Cayuga Red Streak, Coleman, Dunlap’s Aurora, Eighteen Ounce, Governor Seward, Lima, Morgan’s Favorite, Wine, Congress(?)

Originating in New York in the early 1800’s, Twenty Ounce is a very large, showy fruit and an excellent cooking apple. Cooks easily and makes a fine applesauce. Large, roundish fruit with a thick, tough greenish-yellow skin with stripes and splashes of carmine and deep red. The whitish-yellow flesh is coarse, tender and juicy. Ripens in September.

Twenty Ounce Fruit

Twenty Ounce Bloom

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