USDA-NPGS
Dayton
Malus domestica (Suckow) Borkh.
Dessert
Measured Phenotype
- Brix
- 12.2 °Bx
source: GRIN
Each value is the highest-precedence :Assertion attached to this cultivar; full provenance (year, evidence type, confidence) is preserved in the graph.
Dayton is a modern American dessert apple developed from a 1967 cross at the University of Illinois. It offers a roundish shape with attractive red overcolor and crisp, fine-grained flesh with subacid flavor, maturing about four weeks before Delicious.
Flavor & Texture
subacidfine_grainedfirmcrisp
Best Uses
fresh_eating
Where to Pick
Origin & History
- Origin type
- deliberate cross
Disease Resistance
- Apple scab
- highly resistant
- Fire blight
- moderately resistant
- Powdery mildew
- moderately resistant
- Cedar-apple rust
- moderately resistant
- Leaf spot
- susceptible
Cornell Apple Variety Database.
References
- USDA-NPGS
- PI 590183
- US plant patent
- PP5584(expired)granted 1985-12-03 · expires 2005-12-03