Mollie's Delicious

Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.

Dessert

Introduced

1948

Origin

New Jersey, United States

Measured Phenotype

Fruit height: 72.6 mm
Fruit width: 84.4 mm

Each value is the highest-precedence :Assertion attached to this cultivar; full provenance (year, evidence type, confidence) is preserved in the graph.

Mollie's Delicious is an American dessert apple developed in New Jersey in 1966 with a conical shape and pinkish-red colour. The crisp, sweet flesh has good flavour and impressive cold storage longevity, with a pleasant aftertaste that extends its appeal through late summer and early fall.

Flavor & Texture

sweetcrisp

Best Uses

fresh_eating

Lineage

Parents

Golden Delicious Close Gravenstein Golden Delicious X Edgewood x Red Gravenstein X Close

Offspring

Imperatriz

Origin & History

Origin type: deliberate cross

Disease Resistance

Apple scab: susceptible
Fire blight: highly susceptible
Cedar-apple rust: highly resistant
Leaf spot: moderately susceptible

Cornell Apple Variety Database.

References

UK National Fruit Collection: 4021
Wikidata: Q41779484