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Red Dougherty
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
A coloured sport of Dougherty. Originated in Twyford, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand by C.F. Bixley. Introduced in 1930. Fruits have firm, fine, hard, greenish white flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1952 - 221
- Accession name
- Red Dougherty
- Flowering time ›››
- 6th May10% flowering
11th MayFull (80%) flowering
18th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late October 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Globose 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- very weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish green 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium-high 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- very low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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