Wealthy
syn. Lelsy, Plodovodnoe, Uelsi
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by Peter M. Gideon at Excelsior, Minnesota, USA from Cherry Crab open-pollinated. First recorded in 1860. Received an Award of Merit from Royal Horticultural Society in 1893. Fruits have rather soft, coarse-textured, juicy, sweet flesh with a faint vinous flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 64-76 mm
- Over colour
- carmine stripes, sometimes carmine flush
- Flesh colour
- greenish white, tinged pink near skin
- Fruit height
- 57-64 mm
- Skin texture
- slightly greasy, thick, tough
- Flesh texture
- rather soft, coarse
- Ground colour
- pale yellow
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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