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Stevenson Wealthy
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
A bud mutation of Wealthy producing larger fruit. Discovered in 1934 in Cayuga, New York, USA by J.R. Stevenson. Fruits have rather soft, coarse-textured, juicy flesh with a sweet and faint vinous flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Sport of Wealthy
Accession No.
1974 - 073
- Accession name
- Stevenson Wealthy
- Flowering time ›››
- 8th May10% flowering
12th MayFull (80%) flowering
18th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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