Applevariety
Kentucky Red Streak
Also known as Bradford's Best +5
Bradford's Best · Kentucky Redstreak · Kentucky Rouge Strie · Kentucky Rouge Striee · Kentucky Streak · Selina
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; mildly tart and firm. Picked in late October.
Origin · USA
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed and striped dull redBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- medium
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern dotted
Origin & family
Where Kentucky Red Streak began
Recorded origin
USA
United States
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- synonyms
- Bradford's Best, Kentucky Redstreak, Kentucky Rouge Strie, Kentucky Rouge Striee, Kentucky Streak, Selina
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- over colour
- flushed and striped dull red
- russet type
- dotted
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- 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.