Vicking
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Parentage includes Jonathan, Delicious, Williams Early Red, Early McIntosh and Starr. Raised by nurseryman G.W. Gurney, Yankton, South Dakota, USA. Introduced in 1925. Fruits have soft, juicy flesh.
Availability
Material in the National Fruit Collection not currently available.
Parentage:
Complex - see description x Complex - see description
Accession name
Vicking
Flowering time
30th April 10% flowering
4th May Full (80%) flowering
11th May 90% petal fall
Picking time
Late August 1
Size
medium 1
Type
Dessert 1
Shape
Globose 1
Height
58.42 mm 1
Width
68.03 mm 1
Ribbing
medium 1
Crown
weak-medium 1
Ground Colour
Whitish yellow 1
Over Colour (Amount)
high-very high 1
Over Colour
Dark Red 1
Over Colour (Pattern)
striped/solid flush 1
Russet
absent 1
Flesh Colour
Cream 1
References:
1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register