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Captain Davis
type: Culinary, Eating
identification: Medium size tending to large. Round. Green base colour, blushed red over half the surface and marked with abundant white lenticels. The stem is short and moderately stout, set in a narrow, moderately deep and russetted cavity. The calyx is medium size, partly open and set in a deep and puckered basin.
characteristics: The flesh is white, fine-grained, crisp. Juicy and moderately sweet when fully ripened. Fragrant.
uses: Can be picked green for baking, or fully ripened for fresh eating.
origins: Raised from the pips of an apple tree found by Captain Davis in the mid-1800s in the Carolinas (U.S.A.). He planted the seeds at his home near Kosciusko, Mississippi, and nurtured the most vigorous of the seedlings, propagating it from root sprouts. However, the apple disappeared from view in the early 1900s and was thought lost until 2003 when one of the old apple trees growing on the abandoned Davis property was positively identified as a Captain Davis. It is now available once more at a few select nurseries in the southeastern United States.
harvest: Early in the third period.
notes: This is probably the same apple as Ben Davis
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
harvest period: 3
hardiness: 5
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