The World of Apples

Apple varieties, United States

Spigold

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

Triploid. Raised at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA. Fruits have fine-textured, juicy, sweet flesh with a pleasant flavour.

Family tree

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

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

Sources

  1. Spigold (accession 1979 - 187), 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).
  2. Ploidy level (descriptor 115159), study MALUS.PLOIDYDETERMINATION.2008, USDA Agricultural Research Service, GRIN-Global, 2008. Supports: its ploidy, triploid, measured by flow cytometry on accession PI 588860 of the USDA apple collection at Geneva, New York.

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