Very high-quality tender slightly dry dessert fruit with a rich spicy aromatic flavor. Elongated-conic fruit features a prominent reddish blush that shines through a russet web. Not a storage apple but keeps until about December.
Was much-loved in southeastern Canada, northern Vermont and Maine from before the American Revolution. After more than 100 years of popularity, it disappeared, like so many old varieties, at the end of the 19th century. Maine fruit explorer Regina Grabrovac found some ancient russets in Dennysville, way downeast, not far from the Canadian border. While so many of our russet apple finds are proving to be matches to the more common and widespread Golden Russet varieties, these gems DNA tested as a unique variety. We are quite sure they are Bourassa. Blooms midseason. Z3.
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