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Clear Gold
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
A sport of Golden Delicious. Originated in Worley's Nursery, York Springs, PA, U.S.A. Fruits have fairly crisp, juicy flesh with a good flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Sport of Golden Delicious
Accession No.
1976 - 123
- Accession name
- Clear Gold
- Flowering time ›››
- 14th May10% flowering
18th MayFull (80%) flowering
25th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late October 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 1
- Over Colour
- n/a 1
- Over Colour Amount
- absent 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- n/a 1
- Russet
- very low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Juiciness
- dry 1
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 1
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019