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Apple varieties, United States

Mandan

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

Raised by William A. Oitto, Northern Great Plains Research Center, Mandan, North Dakota, USA. It was introduced in 1965. Fruits have firm, crisp, very juicy, yellowish flesh with a mildly subacid and good flavour.

Family tree

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

Mandan United States, by 1965
- Seed parent Duchess of Oldenburg Russia, 1700s or earlier
- Pollen parent Starking United States, 1921
  - Sport of Delicious United States, 1872
    - Parent Winesap United States, by 1817

Where Mandan came from.

Sources

Mandan (accession 1974 - 063), 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 (early september).