Red Dougherty
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
A coloured sport of Dougherty. Originated in Twyford, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand by C.F. Bixley. Introduced in 1930. Fruits have firm, fine, hard, greenish white flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- small to medium
- Fruit shape
- tall to intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 49-60 mm
- Over colour
- striped dull dark red almost overall
- Russet type
- white-ringed russet spots, occasional patches
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Fruit height
- 40-54 mm
- Flesh texture
- firm, fine, hard, tough
- Ground colour
- green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- very weak
- Shape
- Globose
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish green
- Over colour amount
- medium-high
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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