Applevariety
Dunning
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, oblong in shape, raised in 1923 and introduced in 1938; sweet, crisp and firm. Picked in late August.
Origin · New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, New York
Released 1938
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour Dark RedBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- mediumWidth 61.50 mmHeight 55.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges very weak
Origin & family
Where Dunning began
Recorded origin
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, New York
- Released
- 1938
Dunning’s family
6 varieties · 5 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Dunning
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, New York
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Oblong
- width
- 61.50 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 55.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- very weak
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Early McIntosh x Cox's Orange Pippin
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Dark Red
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Other apple varieties
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.