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Delicious
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
An American apple discovered in about 1880 growing as a shoot from a rootstock by J. Hiatt, near Peru, Iowa. It was introduced by Stark Brothers in 1895. Fruits have very firm, very sweet, juicy flesh with a highly aromatic flavour. Skin is very tough. Fruits have much better flavour when grown in climates with good temperature and light conditions.
- Synonyms:
- Cervena prevazhodna, Delicious rosso, Hawkeye, Piros Delicious, Prevoshodnoe krasnoe, Red Delicious, Stark Delicious
- Availability
- Not currently held in the National Fruit Collection.
- Father to:
- Fuji
- Kidd's Orange Red
- Fukunishiki
- Orleans
- Medina
- Jonadel
- Empire
- Chieftain
- Regent
- Legana
- Kinrei
- Sweet Delicious
- Murasaki
- New Fuji
- Sports:
- Idaho Delicious
- Oregon Spur
- Starkspur Supreme
- Richared Delicious
- Starking
- Starkrimson Delicious
- Wellspur Delicious
- Shape
- Truncate conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 58.00mm 2
- Width
- 64.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- strong 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1921 - 021
- Accession name
- Delicious
- Flowering time ›››
- 8th May10% flowering
12th MayFull (80%) flowering
20th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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