Kapai Red Jonathan
syn. Kapai Jonathan
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
A more highly coloured sport of Jonathan. Discovered in 1929 by A. Tomlinson in Frimley, Hastings, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. Fruits have firm, fine flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 54-64 mm
- Over colour
- flushed and striped deep red
- Russet type
- sometimes russet on base
- Flesh colour
- cream
- Fruit height
- 46-57 mm
- Flesh texture
- firm, fine
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 68.45 mm
- Height
- 60.83 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium-high
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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