Applevariety
King David
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, introduced in 1902; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Washington County, Arkansas, USA
Released 1902
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour RedBackground colour YellowSurface colour coverage high-very high
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- medium
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where King David began
Recorded origin
Washington County, Arkansas, USA
United States
- Released
- 1902
King David’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
King David
Washington County, Arkansas, USA, United States
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Jonathan → King DavidParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Jonathan x Winesap or Arkansas Black
- coarseness
- coarse
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.