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Apple varieties, United States

Idaho Delicious

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

A tetraploid form of Delicious. Received by the National Fruit Trials from U.S.A. in 1965. Fruits have very firm, fine-textured juicy flesh which is very sweet with a highly aromatic flavour. Very tough skin.

Family tree

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

Idaho Delicious United States, by 1965
- Sport of Delicious United States, 1872
  - Parent Winesap United States, by 1817

Sources

Idaho Delicious (accession 1965 - 041), 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 (mid october).