Applevariety
Sweet Delicious
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, raised in 1911; sweet, aromatic and firm. Picked in early October.
Origin · New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- sweet, aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed reddish orange, red streaksSkin texture slightly rough and tackyBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex, sometimes almost straight
- Size
- largeFruit width 71-78 mmFruit height 62-69 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges strongly ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern many large russet dots, russet at base
Origin & family
Where Sweet Delicious began
Recorded origin
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA
United States
Sweet Delicious’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Sweet Delicious
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA, United States
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Delicious → Sweet DeliciousParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, aromatic
- ribbing
- strongly ribbed at eye and on body
- parentage
- Deacon Jones x Delicious
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex, sometimes almost straight
- fruit width
- 71-78 mm
- over colour
- flushed reddish orange, red streaks
- russet type
- many large russet dots, russet at base
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- fruit height
- 62-69 mm
- skin texture
- slightly rough and tacky
- 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.