Applevariety
Idagold
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin, oblong in shape, introduced in 1944 and selected in 1939; mildly tart and soft. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station, Moscow, Idaho, USA
Released 1944
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Background colour Green yellow
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- mediumWidth 70.00 mmHeight 55.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges strong
Origin & family
Where Idagold began
Recorded origin
Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station, Moscow, Idaho, USA
United States
- Selected
- 1939
- Released
- 1944
Idagold’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Idagold
Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station, Moscow, Idaho, USA, United States
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
- 70.00 mm
- height
- 55.00 mm
- ribbing
- strong
- firmness
- soft
- parentage
- Esopus Spitzenburg x Wagener
- coarseness
- fine
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.