| Golden Delicious | |
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| Species | Malus domestica |
| Hybrid parentage | Grimes Golden x ?[1] |
| Cultivar | Golden Delicious |
| Origin | Clay County, West Virginia, United States, 1905 |
Golden Delicious is a cultivar of apple. It is one of the 15 most popular apple cultivars in the United States.[2] It is not closely related to Red Delicious.[3]
- ^ Luby, Howard, Tillman, Bedford. HortScience 57(3): 472-477. 2022
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"Varieties". US Apple Association. Archived from the original on October 13, 2013.
...a total of 15 popular varieties account for almost 90 percent of 2008 production: Braeburn, Honeycrisp, Cortland, Idared, Empire, Jonagold, Fuji, Jonathan, Gala, McIntosh, Ginger Gold, Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Rome, Granny Smith
- ^ Dominique A.M. Noiton and Peter A. Alspach (September 1996). "Founding Clones, Inbreeding, Coancestry, and Status Number of Modern Apple Cultivars" (PDF). Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science. pp. 773–782. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 9, 2014.