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Kapai Red Jonathan
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
A more highly coloured sport of Jonathan. Discovered in 1929 by A. Tomlinson in Frimley, Hastings, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. Fruits have firm, fine flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Kapai Jonathan
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Sport of Jonathan
Accession No.
1979 - 165
- Accession name
- Kapai Red Jonathan (LA 69A)
- Flowering time ›››
- 4th May10% flowering
10th MayFull (80%) flowering
17th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early October 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Height
- 60.83 mm 1
- Width
- 68.45 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium-high 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Coarseness
- fine 1
- Juiciness
- juicy 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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