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Granny Smith, green apple, is a tip-bearing apple
APPLE

This article is about the satellite APPLE. For the fruit apple, see Apple. For other uses see Apple .The Ariane Passenger PayLoad Experiment , was an experimental communication satellite with a C-Band transponder launched by Indian Space Research Organisation satellite on June 19, 1981 by Ariane 1, a launch vehicle of the European Spac...
 cultivar
Cultivar

A cultivar is a cultivated plant that has been selected and given a unique name because of its decorative or useful characteristics; it is usually distinct from similar plants and when Plant propagation it retains those characteristics....
. It originated in Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
 in 1868 from a chance seedling
Chance seedling

A chance seedling is the name given to a plant cultivar discovered by chance.This is often the case for heterozygote Cloning that can't be reproduced by seeds....
 propagated
Fruit tree propagation

Fruit tree propagation is usually carried out through asexual reproduction by grafting or budding the desired variety onto a suitable rootstock....
 by Maria Ann Smith (née Sherwood, b. 1799, d. 9 March 1870), where the name "Granny Smith" comes from. It is thought to be a seed from Malus sylvestris, the European Wild Apple, with the domestic apple M. domestica as the polleniser
Pollenizer

A pollenizer or polleniser, sometimes pollinizer or polliniser is a plant that provides pollen.The words pollenizer and pollination are often confused: A pollinator is the biotic agent that moves the pollen, such as bees, moths, bats, and birds....
, which would make it a hybrid
Hybrid

In biology, hybrid has two meanings. The first meaning is the result of interbreeding between two animals or plants of different Taxon. Hybrids between different species within the same genus are sometimes known as interspecific hybrids or crosses....
. Widely propagated in New Zealand
New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
, it was originally introduced to the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 circa 1935 and the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 in 1972 by Grady Auvil
Grady Auvil

Grady Auvil is the founder of the Auvil Fruit Company.He established the Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission and first cultivated the Granny Smith apple in the United States....
.

To this day, there is an annual Granny Smith Festival
Granny Smith Festival

The Granny Smith Festival is held in Eastwood, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. It is the largest annual event of its type in Lower Northern Sydney ....
 in Eastwood, New South Wales
Eastwood, New South Wales

Eastwood is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Eastwood is located 17 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district in the Local Government Areas in Australias of the City of Ryde and the City of Parramatta....
 at the end of October.






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Granny Smith, green apple, is a tip-bearing apple
APPLE

This article is about the satellite APPLE. For the fruit apple, see Apple. For other uses see Apple .The Ariane Passenger PayLoad Experiment , was an experimental communication satellite with a C-Band transponder launched by Indian Space Research Organisation satellite on June 19, 1981 by Ariane 1, a launch vehicle of the European Spac...
 cultivar
Cultivar

A cultivar is a cultivated plant that has been selected and given a unique name because of its decorative or useful characteristics; it is usually distinct from similar plants and when Plant propagation it retains those characteristics....
. It originated in Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
 in 1868 from a chance seedling
Chance seedling

A chance seedling is the name given to a plant cultivar discovered by chance.This is often the case for heterozygote Cloning that can't be reproduced by seeds....
 propagated
Fruit tree propagation

Fruit tree propagation is usually carried out through asexual reproduction by grafting or budding the desired variety onto a suitable rootstock....
 by Maria Ann Smith (née Sherwood, b. 1799, d. 9 March 1870), where the name "Granny Smith" comes from. It is thought to be a seed from Malus sylvestris, the European Wild Apple, with the domestic apple M. domestica as the polleniser
Pollenizer

A pollenizer or polleniser, sometimes pollinizer or polliniser is a plant that provides pollen.The words pollenizer and pollination are often confused: A pollinator is the biotic agent that moves the pollen, such as bees, moths, bats, and birds....
, which would make it a hybrid
Hybrid

In biology, hybrid has two meanings. The first meaning is the result of interbreeding between two animals or plants of different Taxon. Hybrids between different species within the same genus are sometimes known as interspecific hybrids or crosses....
. Widely propagated in New Zealand
New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
, it was originally introduced to the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 circa 1935 and the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 in 1972 by Grady Auvil
Grady Auvil

Grady Auvil is the founder of the Auvil Fruit Company.He established the Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission and first cultivated the Granny Smith apple in the United States....
.

To this day, there is an annual Granny Smith Festival
Granny Smith Festival

The Granny Smith Festival is held in Eastwood, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. It is the largest annual event of its type in Lower Northern Sydney ....
 in Eastwood, New South Wales
Eastwood, New South Wales

Eastwood is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Eastwood is located 17 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district in the Local Government Areas in Australias of the City of Ryde and the City of Parramatta....
 at the end of October. The celebration marks the fact that beyond the cultivar's local origins, in the late 19th, early 20th Century, the orchards of Eastwood supplied apples to the Sydney region. Sydney, with its humid subtropical climate is not ideally suited for growing apples but Granny Smith did notably well while other cultivars struggled. With much easier transport, apples are no longer grown commercially in the Sydney region.

Granny Smith apples are a light speckled green in colour. They are crisp, juicy, tart apples which are excellent for both cooking and eating raw. They also are favoured for salads because the slices do not brown as quickly as other varieties. It also tends to have a harder texture than other green apples, posing problems for denture wearers. This cultivar needs fewer winter chill hour
Chilling requirement

The chilling requirement of a fruit is the minimum period of cold weather after which a fruit-bearing tree will blossom. It is often expressed in chill hours, which can be calculated in different ways, all of which essentially involve adding up the total amount of time in a winter spent at certain temperatures....
s and a longer growing season to mature the fruit, so it is favored for the milder areas of the apple growing regions.

The cultivar is widely recognised throughout the world and Apple Records
Apple Records

Apple Records is a record label founded by The Beatles in 1968, as a division of Apple Corps. It was initially intended as a creative outlet for the Beatles, both as a group and individually, plus a selection of other artists including Mary Hopkin, James Taylor, Badfinger, and Billy Preston....
 adopted a Granny Smith apple as its symbol.

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