Granny Smith apple

The Granny Smith apple needs no introduction really, green cooking apple with good acid content to retain and enhance flavours in cooking, discovered by Mrs Smith in Ryde, N.S.W. who apparently brought home gin cases from Sydney market and tipped the rotting apples in a nearby creek, later noticing a seedling apple growing in the same spot, from those inauspicious beginnings sprang Australia’s most famous cooking apple

Ripens: June/July

Pollinate with: Jonathan, Cox's Orange, Golden Delicious, Gala, Fuji, Freyburg, King David, Sundowner, Yapeen Seedling, Sturmer Pippin, Pink Lady, Sweet Coppin (cider)