Red Delicious ( English Red Delicious ) - a variety of apples, a clone of the variety delishes. It is not a relative of the Golden Delicious variety [1] . Recommended by the State Register for use in the North Caucasus region [2] . According to the Apple Association of the United States , is one of the fifteen most popular apple varieties in the United States [3] .
| Red Delicious | |
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| Taxonomy | |
| Kind | Apple tree |
| View | Apple-tree house |
| Origin | |
| Country of origin |  USA , Madison County, Iowa |
History
Red Delicious appeared in 1880 in the Madison County of Iowa . It was first described as “a round, reddened yellow fruit, unsurpassedly sweet” [4] . Stark Nurseries held a competition in 1892 to find the apple variety [5] . The winner was a red and yellow striped apple sent by Jesse Hiatt , a farmer from Peru , Iowa , who called him Hawkeye . Stark Nurseries bought the rights from Hyatt, renaming the variety “Stark Delicious” and began distributing it. Another apple tree, later called Golden Delicious , was also sold to the Stark Nurseries after it was purchased from a farmer in Clay County , West Virginia , [6] in 1914; “Delicious” was superseded by “Red Delicious” and became a retronym [4] .
Description
The tree is medium-sized. The crown at a young age is oval or inversely pyramidal, in the fruit-bearing it is round or wide-round, formed by branches of medium thickness with numerous different-aged rings, on which fruiting is mainly concentrated.
Shoots are medium, red-brown, with severe pubescence, straight or slightly curved. Leaves of medium size, oblong-oval, with a rounded base and a middle elongated tip, green, shiny, leaf edge serrate-town. It differs from Delicious by the presence of a red coloration below the petiole, reaching the middle of the leaf along the vein.
Fruits differ from the main variety by an intense dark red blush over the entire surface of the fruit and the red color of the stalk of the fruit on the sunny side of the tree [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Dominique AM Noiton and Peter A. Alspach (September 1996) “Founding Clones, Inbreeding, Coancestry, and Status Number of Modern Apple Cultivars”, Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 121: 773-782 [1]
- ↑ 1 2 Variety of apple trees Red Delicious . www.vniispk.ru. Date of appeal September 17, 2017.
- ↑ US Apple Association . US Apple Association. Date of appeal September 17, 2017.
- ↑ 1 2 Higgins, Adrian (August 5, 2005). "Why the Red Delicious No Longer Is . " The Washington Post .
- ↑ Leona (Lee) Novy Jackson, “Delicious Apples and Their History” [2] Archived July 13, 2011 on Wayback Machine , Apples, Apples Everywhere — Favorite Recipes From America's Orchards . ISBN 0-930643-11-9 . Images Unlimited Publishing. Maryville, MO.
- ↑ Mulcaster, Glenn (November 3, 2009). "History of a Golden Opportunity." . THE AGE Epicure . The myth-making in US horticulture that consigned Johnny Appleseed to caricature has colored the background of the 20th century's most enduring apple.