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Apple varieties, United States

Goldspur

The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it¹:

A spur type clone of Golden Delicious. It was discovered in 1960 by Grady Auvil, Sundale Orchards, Roosevelt, Washington, USA. It was introduced in 1963. Fruits have crisp, sweet, juicy flesh with a good aromatic flavour.

Family tree

Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.

Goldspur United States, 1960
- Sport of Golden Delicious United States, 1905
  - Parent Grimes Golden United States, by 1804

Sources

Goldspur (accession 1970 - 039), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the parentage; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (late october); the other names.