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Ambrosia is a medium-sized, fragrant apple. The skin has a creamy white background, with a pink/red blush and stripes over it.

The flesh is very sweet, with not much tartness, and almost no grittiness to the texture.

Cooking Tips
The flesh is very slow to brown when cut open, and is good in salads because of this.

Storage
Ambrosia Apples don't store particularly well, so they will disappear from stores within about 4 months after harvesting. Very specialized commercial storage can extend their storage life by a few more months.

History
The apple was developed by an English family who had immigrated to Canada in 1947. The family, the Mennells, found an unknown apple tree seedling growing in their orchard in the Similkameen Valley in British Columbia in the early 1990s.

In the area of their orchard where the chance seedling was found, the Mennells had been growing Red Delicious and Golden Delicious apples, but had cut down those trees and planted Jonagold. They allowed the seedling to grow into a tree, tried the fruit from it, and liked it. When the tree had matured enough, they grafted some branches onto other apple trees to see if it would take: it did, and the variety was off and running.

See Also:

Fresh-Eating Apples

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Salad Apples
Ambrosia Apples, Cameo Apple, Cortland Apples, Criterion Apple, Golden Delicious Apples, Honey Crisp Apple, July Tart Apples, Mollie's Delicious Apples, Nova Easy Gro Apples, Pacific Rose Apple, Prairie Sun Apples, Royal Gala Apples, Southern Rose Apple, Sweet Sixteen Apples

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Apples
Acme Apples, Adanac Apples, Airlie Red Flesh Apples, Alaska Apples, Amberoso Apples, Applecrabs, Boiken Apples, British Apples, Cider Apples, Cooking Apples, Crab Apples, Desse de Buff Apples, Erwin Baur Apples, Fameuse Apples, Fresh-Eating Apples, Juice Apples, Ozark Pippin Apples, Pie Apples, Pixie Apples, Russet Apples, Sauce Apples, Smith's Cider Apples, Ziegler's Sweeting Apples

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Hard Fruit
Apricots, Avocado, Chayote, Citrus Fruit, Guava Fruit, Kiwis, Mangos, Maypop Fruit, Medlars, Melons, Nectarines, Papaya, Passion Fruit, Peaches, Pears, Persimmons, Plums, Pomegranates, Quinces, Red Sorrel, Rose Hips, Sapote, Star Fruit, True Service Fruit

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Fruit
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