Cameo apple

/KA-mee-oh/
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A dual-purpose modern apple variety, yellow with red flushing with some white speckles which cooks well, retaining its shape. It was a chance seedling of Red Delicious and Golden Delicious. It is a late-season, American apple which appears in late autumn (US: fall) and which has good keeping properties, mellowing on storage. It was formerly known as Carousel.

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