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Shenandoah
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1942 by R.C. Moore, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, USA. Introduced in 1967. Fruits have crisp, juicy flesh with a slightly perfumed and aromatic flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Winesap x Opalescent
Accession No.
1974 - 071
- Accession name
- Shenandoah
- Flowering time ›››
- 4th May10% flowering
8th MayFull (80%) flowering
16th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early October 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Height
- 64.01 mm 1
- Width
- 72.99 mm 1
- Ribbing
- very weak 1
- Crown
- weak-medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium-high 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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