Applevariety
Kidd's Orange Red
Also known as Delco +2
Delco · Kidd's Orange · Kidd's Oranje Roode
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, raised in 1924; sweet, aromatic, juicy and crisp. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Greytown, Wairarapa, New Zealand
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Flavour
- rich
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 67.00 mmHeight 54.00 mm
- Appearance
- very lowSurface ridges medium
Origin & family
Where Kidd's Orange Red began
Recorded origin
Greytown, Wairarapa
New Zealand
Family tree
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 67.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 54.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- sports
- Captain Kidd
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Delco, Kidd's Orange, Kidd's Oranje Roode
- father to
- Telstar
- mother to
- Imperial Gala Gala
- parentage
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Delicious
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 On the tree at the UK National Fruit Collection.