Sweet Delicious
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1911 at New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA by R. Wellington. Fruits have firm, fine, creamy white flesh with a sweet, aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 9th May (10%) · 15th May (full) · 22nd May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, aromatic
- Ribbing
- strongly ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex, sometimes almost straight
- Fruit width
- 71-78 mm
- Over colour
- flushed reddish orange, red streaks
- Russet type
- many large russet dots, russet at base
- Flesh colour
- creamy white
- Fruit height
- 62-69 mm
- Skin texture
- slightly rough and tacky
- Flesh texture
- firm, fine
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- strong
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 83.03 mm
- Height
- 70.82 mm
- Russet
- low-medium
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Weak
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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