Red Delicious

Red Delicious is an apple cultivar known for dark red skin, a mildly sweet flavor, and a characteristically elongated shape with raised lobes at the base.

Jesse Hiatt: Jesse Hiatt was an Iowa farmer credited with discovering the apple that became Red Delicious. His farm produced the chance seedling that began the cultivar’s history.
Apple: An apple is the edible fruit of trees in the genus Malus, especially Malus domestica. Red Delicious is one cultivated form of the domesticated apple.
Apple orchard: An apple orchard is a managed planting of apple trees grown for fruit production. Red Delicious is cultivated in commercial orchards, where tree management affects yield and fruit quality.
Golden Delicious: Golden Delicious is a yellow-green apple cultivar with a sweet flavor and tender flesh. Its yellow skin and broader culinary reputation contrast with Red Delicious’s dark red appearance.
Stark Brothers Nurseries: Stark Brothers Nurseries is an American horticultural company that bred, marketed, and sold fruit trees. The nursery bought the seedling and made the cultivar commercially available.
Apple cultivar: An apple cultivar is a cultivated variety maintained for its distinguishing traits, often by grafting. Red Delicious is preserved as a cultivar rather than reliably reproduced from seed.
Fruit grading: Fruit grading sorts produce by attributes such as size, color, shape, and defects. Red color and uniform shape made Red Delicious well suited to appearance-based grading.
Granny Smith: Granny Smith is a green apple cultivar known for firm flesh and tart flavor. Its sharp acidity contrasts with Red Delicious’s mild sweetness.
Hawkeye apple: Hawkeye is the original name given to the apple seedling that became Red Delicious. This was the cultivar’s name before Stark Brothers renamed it.
Apple skin: Apple skin is the fruit’s outer covering, whose pigments and wax affect color and surface appearance. Its dark red skin is Red Delicious’s most recognizable external trait.

Linked from 1 page