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Medina
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1911 by Richard Wellington at New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, New York, USA. It was introduced in 1923. Fruits have firm, tender, fairly coarse flesh with a sweet subacid, aromatic and perfumed flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Deacon Jones x Delicious
- Shape
- Flat globose 2
- Size
- medium-large 2
- Height
- 63.00mm 2
- Width
- 70.50mm 2
- Ribbing
- strong 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- streaked 2
- Russet
- low 2
- Greasiness
- Weak 2
- Coarseness
- medium-coarse 2
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 2
Accession No.
1952 - 046
- Accession name
- Medina
- Flowering time ›››
- 7th May10% flowering
12th MayFull (80%) flowering
20th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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