Applevariety

Chieftain

A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, round in shape, raised in 1917 and introduced in 1967; sweet, juicy and crisp. Picked in mid-October.

Origin · Iowa Experimental Station, Ames, U.S.A

Released 1967

Taste & texture

Sweetness
sweet
Bite
crisp
Juiciness
juicy
Used for
Dessert apple

Origin & family

Where Chieftain began

Recorded origin

Iowa Experimental Station, Ames, U.S.A

United States

Released
1967

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Field notes

Original source notes
Fruit & tree
parentage
Jonathan x Delicious
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