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Loop Wealthy
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
A tetraploid bud sport of Wealthy producing larger fruits. Originated in the orchard of G.C. Smith & Sons, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. The parent tree was planted in about 1909 and acquired in 1947 by New York Agricultural Experiment Station. Fruits have rather soft but juicy flesh with a sweet and faint vinous flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Giant Wealthy
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Sport of Wealthy
Accession No.
1974 - 263
- Accession name
- Loop Wealthy (NY)
- Flowering time ›››
- 5th May10% flowering
11th MayFull (80%) flowering
20th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid September 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/solid flush 1
- Greasiness
- Medium 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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