Loop Wealthy
syn. Giant Wealthy
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
A tetraploid bud sport of Wealthy producing larger fruits. Originated in the orchard of G.C. Smith & Sons, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. The parent tree was planted in about 1909 and acquired in 1947 by New York Agricultural Experiment Station. Fruits have rather soft but juicy flesh with a sweet and faint vinous flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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