Kentucky Red Streak
syn. Bradford's Best, Kentucky Redstreak, Kentucky Rouge Strie, Kentucky Rouge Striee, Kentucky Streak, Selina
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in USA. It was known before 1864. Fruits have firm, fine flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
- Flowering
- 3rd May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Over colour
- flushed and striped dull red
- Russet type
- dotted
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Flesh texture
- firm, fine
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 69.63 mm
- Crunch
- crumbly
- Height
- 62.33 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- dry
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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