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Dodd
Culinary apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Arose in a pasture lane, over the fence from a Tolman Sweet orchard owned by Howard Dodds of Heuvelton, New York, USA. Fruits have a fine subacid flavour with a banana-like aroma.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Tolman Sweet (original name Tolman Sweeting) x Fameuse
Accession No.
1975 - 011
- Accession name
- Dodd
- Flowering time ›››
- 4th May10% flowering
9th MayFull (80%) flowering
17th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early September 1
- Size
- small-medium 1
- Shape
- Flat globose 1
- Ribbing
- weak 1
- Crown
- very weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- low-medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/washed out 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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