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Apple varieties, United States

Shenandoah

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

Raised in 1942 by R.C. Moore, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, USA. Introduced in 1967. Fruits have crisp, juicy flesh with a slightly perfumed and aromatic flavour.

Family tree

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

Shenandoah United States, 1942
- Seed parent Winesap United States, by 1817
- Pollen parent Opalescent

Where Shenandoah came from.

Sources

Shenandoah (accession 1974 - 071), 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 october).