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Dunning
type: Culinary, Dessert
summary: A sweet and flavourful, medium-size apple ready for early harvest, good for small, backyard orchards.
identification: Medium size, round-oblong. Skin base colour is yellow over which is a deep-red wash that covers three quarters of the surface, marked with abundant, light-coloured lenticels. The shaded face is marked with a random pattern of broken stripes . Glossy and smooth, though usually covered with a bloom.
characteristics: The flesh is white, often with pale red stains next to the skin. Fine-grained, firm and crisp. Juicy and candy-floss sweet.
origins: A cross of Early McIntosh and Cox’s Orange Pippin , developed in 1923 by Richard Wellington at the New York State Agriculture Experiment Station, in Geneva, New York State (U.S.A.). First fruited in 1934 and released in 1938.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous,
harvest: Ready for harvest starting in the second half of the third period.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 10
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
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