Applevariety
Davey
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-green skin, truncate-conical in shape, introduced in 1950; sweet and firm. Picked in late September.
Origin · North Grafton, Massachusetts, USA
Released 1950
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain medium-coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Whitish greenSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 67.00 mmHeight 55.50 mm
Origin & family
Where Davey began
Recorded origin
North Grafton, Massachusetts, USA
United States
- Released
- 1950
Davey’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Davey
North Grafton, Massachusetts, USA, United States
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
McIntosh → DaveyParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 67.00 mm
- height
- 55.50 mm
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- McIntosh x Unknown
- coarseness
- medium-coarse
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Whitish green
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.