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Idagold
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by Leif Verner, Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station, Moscow, Idaho, USA. It was selected in 1939 and introduced in 1944. Fruits have fine, soft flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Esopus Spitzenburg x Wagener
- Shape
- Oblong 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 55.00mm 2
- Width
- 70.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- strong 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
1951 - 045
- Accession name
- Idagold
- Flowering time ›››
- 5th May10% flowering
10th MayFull (80%) flowering
17th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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