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Apple varieties, United States

Oregon Spur

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

A clone of Red Delicious having more colour. Originated in Milton-Freewater, Ore, USA by Wayne M. Trumbull. Introduced in about 1966. Fruits have firm, very sweet, juicy flesh with an aromatic flavour.

Family tree

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

Oregon Spur United States, by about 1966
- Sport of Delicious United States, 1872
  - Parent Winesap United States, by 1817

Where Oregon Spur came from. The lines lead to its parents: Delicious (United States).

Sources

Oregon Spur (accession 1982 - 188), 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).