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Sweet Delicious
Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.
Dessert
Measured Phenotype
- Brix
- 15.7 °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.
Sweet Delicious is a dessert apple developed in Geneva, New York and introduced in 1922, arising from a cross of Deacon Jones and Delicious. It is suited to fresh eating and baking, with harvest occurring in early October and use extending through January.
Best Uses
fresh_eatingbaking_pie
1 historical watercolor from the USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection (1886–1942) included in the gallery above. Public domain.
Lineage
Parents
Disease Resistance
- Apple scab
- susceptible
- Leaf spot
- susceptible
Cornell Apple Variety Database.
References
- USDA-NPGS
- PI 588955
- UK National Fruit Collection
- 6198
- Wikidata
- Q41782039