General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Tree
Water Preferences: Mesic
Leaves: Deciduous
Fruit: Edible to birds
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Time: Spring
Late spring or early summer
Uses: Flowering Tree
Edible Parts: Fruit
Dynamic Accumulator: K (Potassium)
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Pollinators: Various insects
Parentage: Sport of: Delicious
Child plants: 19 child plants

Image
Alternative cultivar names:
  • 'Red Delicious'
  • 'Delicious'

Common names
  • Apple
Also sold as:
  • Hawkeye

Photo Gallery
Location: Twisp
Date: May
Location: Twisp
Date: September
Location: Fairfax, VA
Date: 2022-04-01
Location: Home
Date: 2016-08-17
Location: Twisp
2019 was a good year for our apples.
Location: Fairfax, VA | June, 2022

Date: 1923
illustration by R. C. Steadman, courtesy of the USDA Pomological
Location: Twisp
Date: 2015-04-26
Location: Home
Date: 2016-08-17
Location: zone 8/9 Lake City, Fl.
Date: 2012-02-28
Location: Home
Date: 2016-08-17
Location: Wiard's Orchards, Ypsilanti, MI
Date: 2014-10-05
Location: Wiard's Orchards, Ypsilanti, MI
Date: 2014-10-05
Location: Wiard's Orchards, Ypsilanti, MI
Date: 2014-10-05
Siamese Twins?
Location: Twisp
Date: October
Location: Sherwood Oregon
Date: 2015-05-25
Immature fruit/May

Date: 2012-12-14

Date: 2012-12-14

Date: 2012-10-09

credit: Fir0002

Date: 2013-09-27
Location: Wiard's Orchards, Ypsilanti, MI
Date: 2014-10-05

Date: 2013-09-27
Location: Wiard's Orchards, Ypsilanti, MI
Date: 2014-10-05
Location: Wiard's Orchards, Ypsilanti, MI
Date: 2014-10-05
Location: Wiard's Orchards, Ypsilanti, MI
Date: 2014-10-05
Location: Wiard's Orchards, Ypsilanti, MI
Date: 2014-10-05

Date: 2012-11-12
Location: Wiard's Orchards, Ypsilanti, MI
Date: 2014-10-05

Date: 2012-11-12
Location: Wiard's Orchards, Ypsilanti, MI
Date: 2014-10-05

Date: 2008-08-19

Date: 2012-12-27

Date: 2015-06-11

Date: 2015-06-11

UK National Fruit Collection photo

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