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Honeygold
Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.
Dessert
Measured Phenotype
- Brix
- 14.2 °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.
Honeygold is a Minnesota dessert apple developed from Golden Delicious and Haralson parentage, introduced in 1969. The fruit has crisp, yellow, juicy flesh with an excellent sweet taste, and ripens in late September to October. Trees produce showy light pink spring blossoms and fruit is ready for use from November through December.
Flavor & Texture
sweetcrispjuicy
Best Uses
fresh_eating
Lineage
Parents
Offspring
Origin & History
- Origin type
- deliberate cross
Disease Resistance
- Apple scab
- resistant
- Fire blight
- moderately resistant
- Powdery mildew
- resistant
- Cedar-apple rust
- susceptible
Cornell Apple Variety Database.
References
- USDA-NPGS
- PI 588939
- UK National Fruit Collection
- 2804
- Wikidata
- Q19572122