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Garden Royal
Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.
Dessert
Measured Phenotype
- Fruit height
- 60.0 mm
- Fruit width
- 68.3 mm
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.
Garden Royal is a medium-sized dessert apple from Sudbury, Massachusetts, with a greenish-yellow skin striped and splashed with bright red. The flesh is tender, juicy, and aromatic with a mild subacid flavor, though it stores poorly. It's a productive upright tree with some biennial bearing tendency.
Flavor & Texture
subacidaromaticrichtenderjuicy
Best Uses
fresh_eating
4 historical watercolors from the USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection (1886–1942) included in the gallery above. Public domain.
Origin & History
- Origin type
- found wilding
- Known by
- ≥ 1847
References
- UK National Fruit Collection
- 2195
- Wikidata
- Q41777260