Applevariety
Red Dougherty
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-green skin, round in shape, introduced in 1930; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in late October.
Origin · Twyford, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand
Released 1930
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour striped dull dark red almost overallBackground colour green
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- tall to intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- small to mediumFruit width 49-60 mmFruit height 40-54 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern white-ringed russet spots, occasional patches
Origin & family
Where Red Dougherty began
Recorded origin
Twyford, Hawkes Bay
New Zealand
- Released
- 1930
Family tree
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, subacid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- parentage
- Sport of Dougherty
- fruit size
- small to medium
- fruit shape
- tall to intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 49-60 mm
- over colour
- striped dull dark red almost overall
- russet type
- white-ringed russet spots, occasional patches
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 40-54 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, fine, hard, tough
- ground colour
- green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.