Red Delicious
Variety of Apple · Malus domestica
The iconic deep red, heart-shaped US apple – sweet-mild with a thick skin.
Also known as: Starking Delicious, Delicious
9
6
5🇺🇸 USA 1880Dessert
Taste & characteristics
Taste
mildjuicysweettender
Susceptibility & resistance
Scab
Profile
- Parentage
- Zufallssämling (vermutl. Yellow Bellflower-Abkömmling)
- Breeder
- Jesse Hiatt, Peru (Iowa)
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
- Fruit weight
- 200 g
Flowering & harvest
| J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flowering | ||||||||||||
| Fruit harvest | ||||||||||||
| Storage |
Description
Fruit
Intensely coloured, mild-sweet, very low-acid and weakly aromatic fruit. Taste rating 3+.
Growth
Tree of medium vigour. Prefers well-ventilated sites.
Yield
No detailed yield data given.
Notes
Only of limited suitability for the garden. Picking date very variable; harvest in several passes by size, if needed into late October. Stores for up to about 7 months.
Care
Choose well-ventilated sites. Harvest the fruit in several passes by size rather than in a single pick.
Site, soil, hardiness and growth follow the species Apple unless the variety states otherwise. Will it grow where you live? → Check your site on the species page
Plan this plant into your own garden
Plan this variety into your own garden, compare varieties and find pollinators – with the variety finder in the app.
← Back to Apple