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Apple varieties, United States

Smoothee

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

A larger, firmer, less russetted clone of Golden Delicious. Discovered in 1958 growing in the orchard of C. Gibson, Evans City, Pennsylvania, USA. Fruits have crisp, sweet, juicy flesh with a good aromatic flavour.

Family tree

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

Smoothee United States, 1958
- Sport of Golden Delicious United States, 1905
  - Parent Grimes Golden United States, by 1804

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

Sources

Smoothee (accession 1979 - 185), 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 october).