Sungold
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Found in 1960 by Alfred & Anthony Caggiano at Bridgetown, New Jersey, USA. Resembles Golden Delicious but has little or no russet.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
- Flowering
- 9th May (10%) · 13th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium-strong
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 69.39 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 65.88 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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