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Apple varieties, United States

Lodi

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

Raised in 1911 by R. Wellington at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, New York, U.S.A. It was introduced in 1924. Fruits have soft, loose-textured, slightly juicy flesh with a subacid flavour. Cooks quite well.

Family tree

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

Lodi United States, 1911
- Seed parent Autumn Bough
- Pollen parent White Transparent Russia, by 1852
  - Parent Aspa
  - Parent Saint Germain

Where Lodi came from.

Sources

Lodi (accession 1979 - 172), 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 july).