Applevariety
Golden Nugget
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, round-conical in shape, raised in 1932 and introduced in 1964; sweet and rich. Picked in late September.
Origin · Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada
Released 1964
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Flavour
- rich
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Size
- small
Origin & family
Where Golden Nugget began
Recorded origin
Kentville, Nova Scotia
Canada
- Released
- 1964
Golden Nugget’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Golden Nugget
Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- parentage
- Golden Russet x Cox's Orange Pippin
- fruit size
- small
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.