Applevariety
Wealthy
Also known as Lelsy +2
Lelsy · Plodovodnoe · Uelsi
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, first recorded in 1860; sweet, mildly tart, wine-like and juicy. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Excelsior, Minnesota, USA
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour carmine stripes, sometimes carmine flushSkin texture slightly greasy, thick, toughBackground colour pale yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white, tinged pink near skin
- Shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 64-76 mmFruit height 57-64 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed
Origin & family
Where Wealthy began
Recorded origin
Excelsior, Minnesota, USA
United States
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- sports
- Stevenson Wealthy Loop Wealthy Case Wealthy
- flavour
- sweet, subacid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed
- synonyms
- Lelsy, Plodovodnoe, Uelsi
- father to
- Fortune Macy Beacon Worcester Cross Red Sauce Siugisdesert
- mother to
- Taunton Cross Epicure Minjon
- parentage
- Cherry Crab x Unknown
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 64-76 mm
- over colour
- carmine stripes, sometimes carmine flush
- flesh colour
- greenish white, tinged pink near skin
- fruit height
- 57-64 mm
- skin texture
- slightly greasy, thick, tough
- flesh texture
- rather soft, coarse
- ground colour
- pale yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.