Applevariety
Kapai Red Jonathan
Also known as Kapai Jonathan
Kapai Jonathan
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in early October.
Origin · Frimley, Hastings, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed and striped deep redBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- cream
- Shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 54-64 mmFruit height 46-57 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern sometimes russet on base
Origin & family
Where Kapai Red Jonathan began
Recorded origin
Frimley, Hastings, Hawkes Bay
New Zealand
Kapai Red Jonathan’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Kapai Red Jonathan
Frimley, Hastings, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Jonathan → Kapai Red JonathanParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- synonyms
- Kapai Jonathan
- parentage
- Sport of Jonathan
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 54-64 mm
- over colour
- flushed and striped deep red
- russet type
- sometimes russet on base
- flesh colour
- cream
- fruit height
- 46-57 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, fine
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.