Biology:Detroit Red (apple)

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Short description: Apple cultivar
'Detroit Red'
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GenusMalus
SpeciesM. domestica
Cultivar'Detroit Red'

'Detroit Red' is a variable apple cultivar, possibly the same as 'Detroit Black', that gives fruit of mediocre quality, somewhat unreliably or biennially.[1] It was grown at Monticello by Thomas Jefferson.[2]

References

  1. Beach, S.A.; Booth, N.O.; Taylor, O.M. (1905), "Detroit Red", The apples of New York, 2, Albany: J. B. Lyon, pp. 46–48, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/56421#page/86/mode/1up 
  2. Hatch, Peter J. (1998). The Fruits and Fruit Trees of Monticello. United States: University of Virginia. pp. 76–77. ISBN 0-8139-1746-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=lDHz7htpBTUC.