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Apple varieties, United States

Sweet-Tart

The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it¹:

A seedling of unknown parentage raised by Robert Gordon, Gordon Apple Trees, Whittier, California, USA. Fruits have soft, juicy flesh with a very sweet flavour.

Where Sweet-Tart came from.

Sources

Sweet-Tart (accession 1982 - 038), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (late september).