Fuji (apple)

Malus pumila, Fuji
Fuji on a tree
GenusMalus
SpeciesM. pumila
Hybrid parentageRed Delicious × Ralls Janet
CultivarFuji
OriginFujisaki, Aomori (1930s)

The Fuji apple (Japanese: ふじ, Hepburn: Fuji) is an apple cultivar developed by growers at the Tōhoku Research Station of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (農林省園芸試験場東北支場, Nōrinshō engei shikenjō Tōhoku-shijō) in Fujisaki, Aomori, Japan, in the late 1930s,[1] and brought to market in 1962. It originated as a cross between two American apple varieties—the Red Delicious and old Virginia Ralls Janet (sometimes cited as "Rawls Jennet") apples. According to the US Apple Association website it is one of the nine most popular apple cultivars in the United States.[2] Its name is derived from the first part of the town where it was developed: Fujisaki.[3]

  1. ^ The Research Station moved to Morioka later; now National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, National Institute of Fruit Tree Science 果樹試験場リンゴ研究部 http://www.naro.affrc.go.jp/fruit/kin/apple/017785.html Archived 2013-03-11 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Apple varieties by the US Apple Association
  3. ^ "Root Growth Changes in the Winter Planting of Young 'Miyabi Fuji'Apple Trees". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-11-16.