The Rhode Island Greening is an old, historic American apple variety and the official apple of the state of Rhode Island. It originated in 1650 at Green’s End, Newport, Rhode Island. It was one of the most popular apples grown in New York in the nineteenth century. It is tender, crisp, juicy and quite tart and similar to the Granny Smith. The fruit is large, uniformly round in shape and flattened on the ends with a dark, waxy green skin that turns a greenish-yellow when fully ripe. It keeps well into the winter and ripens from September to October, keeping well into February or longer.

External links and references

• Greening link from vintage Virginia Apples

Apple cultivars

Ambrosia • Antonovka • Baldwin • Ben Davis • Blenheim Orange • Braeburn • Bramley • Cameo • Cortland • Cornish Gilliflower • Cox's Orange Pippin • Cripps Pink • Egremont Russet • Elstar • Empire • Esopus Spitzenburg • Flower of Kent • Fuji • Gala • Ginger Gold • Golden Delicious • Granny Smith • Gravenstein • Haralson • Honeycrisp • Idared • James Grieve • Jazz • Jonagold • Jonathan • Knobbed Russet • Macoun • McIntosh • Mutsu • Newtown Pippin • Northern Spy • Paula Red • Pink Pearl • Pinova • Rambo • Red Delicious • Rhode Island Greening • Ribston Pippin • Rome • Roxbury Russet • Spartan

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