Applevariety
Idajon
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, flat in shape, introduced in 1949; sweet and crisp. Picked in late October.
Origin · Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station, Moscow, Idaho, USA
Released 1949
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour YellowSurface colour coverage high-very highSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- mediumWidth 67.00 mmHeight 57.50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Idajon began
Recorded origin
Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station, Moscow, Idaho, USA
United States
- Released
- 1949
Idajon’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Idajon
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
- Flat
- width
- 67.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 57.50 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak
- parentage
- Wagener x Jonathan
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.