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Davey
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Discovered in 1928 by S. Lothrop Davenport in North Grafton, Massachusetts, USA. Introduced in 1950. Fruits have firm, slightly coarse flesh with a slightly sweet and perfumed flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- McIntosh x Unknown
- Shape
- Truncate conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 55.50mm 2
- Width
- 67.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Whitish green 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Coarseness
- medium-coarse 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1952 - 044
- Accession name
- Davey (USA)
- Flowering time ›››
- 5th May10% flowering
10th MayFull (80%) flowering
16th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late September 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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