Key facts
- Species
- Malus domestica
- Hybrid parentage
- Grimes Golden x ?
- Cultivar
- Golden Delicious
- Origin
- Clay County, West Virginia , 1905
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- table apple
- Parent taxon
- Malus pumila
- Child
- Pinova
- Country of origin
- United States
- Followed by
- Gala
- Mass
- 200
- Image
- Golden Delicious apples.jpg
- Significant event
- sequencing
- Has use
- horticulture
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- Commons category
- Golden Delicious
- Commons gallery
- Golden Delicious
- has characteristic
- sweetness
- start time
- 1905-00-00
- total produced
- 971754000
- taxon rank
- cultivar
- taxon name
- Malus domestica 'Golden Delicious'
- fruit color
- green
- hybrid of
- Golden Reinette
- time of discovery or invention
- 1890-00-00
- commercialization date
- 1914-00-00
- location of formation
- Clay County
- catalog code
- 1968-070
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Encyclopedic overview
Golden Delicious is a cultivar of apple from the United States, where it is one of the top varieties. Despite its name, it is not closely related to Red Delicious.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Golden Delicious” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.