Black Warrior

Apple

Black Warrior

Origin/History Alabama.

Tree Not described in source.

Fruit Size: Medium or small. Form: Roundish, inclining to conic, regular. Skin: Greenish, with a few brown dots. Flesh: Whitish, moderately juicy, rather firm. Flavor: Subacid, good. Core: Small.

Season November, December.

Uses Not described in source.

Subtypes/Variants Not described in source.

Book Sources

Described in 1 period pomological work

Downing, Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1900)

Nursery Catalog Sources

Found in 5 catalogs (1894–1913) from Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Oregon

Woodburn Nurseries , Woodburn, Marion Co. , Oregon — 1894
Alabama Nursery Co. , Huntsville , Alabama — 1900
Yarbrough Bros. , Stephens , Arkansas — 1901
Benjamin Buckman (personal inventory) , Farmingdale , Illinois — 1901
Benjamin Buckman (personal inventory) , Farmingdale , Illinois — 1913

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Black Warrior. Origin, Alabama. Fruit medium or small, roundish, inclining to conic, regular, greenish, with a few brown dots. Flesh whitish, moderately juicy, rather firm, subacid, good. Core small. November, December.

— A.J. Downing, The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1900)