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Jonadel
type: Eating
summary: A well-flavoured fresh eating apple that can also be used for making pies, dried apple rings and jelly.
identification: Medium size, conic with ribbing on the sides and around the eye. The skin base colour is greenish yellow washed with orange, red and carmine stripes. Marked with light-coloured lenticels and russetted at the base.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, firm, tender and fine textured. Juicy, very sweet and very slightly tart.
uses: A well flavoured fresh eating apple.
origins: Developed in 1923 by H.L. Lantz at the Iowa Agriculture Experiment Station in Ames, Iowa (U.S.A.) from a cross of Jonathan and Delicious. Released in 1958.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, spreading tree. It has a tendancy to drop fruit before harvest.
cold storage: Keeps in storage for up to five months.
vulnerabilities: Very resistant to mildew and blight.
harvest: Ready for harvest in the last half of the fourth period. It has a tendency to drop fruit before harvest.
pollination group: E
pollination peak: 16
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 20
harvest period: 4
hardiness: 4
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