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Virginia Beauty
type: Dessert, Eating
synonyms: Zach Red
identification: Medium to large, round, often lopsided. The skin is smooth and dark red tending to purple. Russeting in the stem cavity often extends over the shoulder and down onto the sides.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish green, fine-grained, tender. Juicy and sweet-tart. Complex flavours. Does not bruise easily.
uses: An eating apple similar to Delicious but much more flavour.
origins: Once a very well-known and desirable apple rivaling Red Delicious for popularity, Virginia Beauty is now a rare apple. The apple originated from a chance seedling that sprouted in 1810 in the backyard of Zach Safewright in the Piper's Gap community of Carroll County in southwestern Virginia (U.S.A.). It was known as the Zach or the Zach Red until 1850 when it was renamed Virginia Beauty. The original tree stood until 1914. Parentage unknown.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, spreading, wide-branching tree. Starts to bear fruit early and produces good harvests. Fruit needs to be trimmed after bloom to maintain fruit size. Tolerates hardiness zones 4 to 8.
cold storage: Keeps five months in cold storage.
vulnerabilities: Resistant to mildew, cedar apple rust and fire blight.
harvest: Toward the end of the fourth period and into the early fifth.
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 20
harvest period: 4
hardiness: 4
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