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Kendall
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1912 at New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, New York, by Richard Wellington. It was introduced in 1932. Fruits have soft flesh with a sweet, subacid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- McIntosh x Zusoff
- Shape
- Conical 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- high-very high 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
1950 - 139
- Accession name
- Kendall
- Flowering time ›››
- 2nd May10% flowering
7th MayFull (80%) flowering
14th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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