Shenandoah
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1942 by R.C. Moore, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, USA. Introduced in 1967. Fruits have crisp, juicy flesh with a slightly perfumed and aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 8th May (full) · 16th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 72.99 mm
- Height
- 64.01 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- very weak
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium-high
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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