Applevariety
Democrat
Also known as Duffy's Seedling +1
Duffy's Seedling · Tasma
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; sweet, juicy and firm. Picked in late October.
Origin · near Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour coverage high-very high
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 57.00 mmHeight 45.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak-medium
Origin & family
Where Democrat began
Recorded origin
near Hobart, Tasmania
Australia
Democrat’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Democrat
near Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Hoover → DemocratParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 57.00 mm
- height
- 45.00 mm
- ribbing
- weak-medium
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Duffy's Seedling, Tasma
- parentage
- Hoover x Unknown
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.