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Wealthy
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by Peter M. Gideon at Excelsior, Minnesota, USA from Cherry Crab open-pollinated. First recorded in 1860. Received an Award of Merit from Royal Horticultural Society in 1893. Fruits have rather soft, coarse-textured, juicy, sweet flesh with a faint vinous flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Lelsy, Plodovodnoe, Uelsi
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in Tidnor Wood National Collection® of Malus (Cider making)
- Parentage:
- Cherry Crab x Unknown
- Mother to:
- Taunton Cross
- Epicure
- Minjon
- Father to:
- Fortune
- Macy
- Beacon
- Worcester Cross
- Red Sauce
- Siugisdesert
- Sports:
- Stevenson Wealthy
- Loop Wealthy
- Case Wealthy
Accession No.
2000 - 098
- Accession name
- Wealthy
- Flowering time ›››
- 7th May10% flowering
12th MayFull (80%) flowering
20th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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