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Dorsett Golden
Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.
Dessert
Measured Phenotype
- Brix
- 13.3 °Bx
- Fruit height
- 74.3 mm
- Fruit width
- 77.0 mm
source: GRIN
source: NFC
source: NFC
Each value is the highest-precedence :Assertion attached to this cultivar; full provenance (year, evidence type, confidence) is preserved in the graph.
Dorsett Golden is a chance seedling of Golden Delicious developed in the Bahamas in 1964. It features yellow skin with a red flush and offers sweet, subacid flesh. Grown as a fresh eating apple and known for being one of the southernmost apple cultivars in North America.
Flavor & Texture
sweetsubacid
Best Uses
fresh_eating
Lineage
Parents
Origin & History
- Origin type
- chance seedling
Disease Resistance
- Apple scab
- susceptible
- Leaf spot
- susceptible
Cornell Apple Variety Database.
References
- USDA-NPGS
- PI 589913
- UK National Fruit Collection
- 1622
- Wikidata
- Q19597011