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Shenandoah
type: Eating, Pie
identification: Medium size, round and slightly conic. Base colour of the skin is yellowish which is almost entirely washed with pale to crimson red with broken red stripes, fading to pale red or orange on the shaded faces and around the eye. The eye is small and closed set in a shallow and wide, lightly ribbed basin. The stem is long and slender, set in a deep and narrow basin. The surface of the apple is marked with many small indentations like pock marks and a grayish bloom develops at maturity.
characteristics: The flesh is pale cream coloured with some reddish stains next to the skin. Crisp, juicy and sweet. Perfumed and aromatic. Holds its shape well when cooked.
uses: Fresh eating and desert. Makes excellent flan and apple pie.
origins: Developed in the early 1940s by R.C. Moore at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg West Virginia a introduced in 1967. A cross between Opalescent and Winesap. NFC Winesap x Opalescent
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, upright spreading spur bearer. Produces good crops on an annual basis. Ripens for picking in the early part of the middle period.
cold storage: Keeps three months
cold storage weeks: 12
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