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Malus domestica 'Baker's Delicious'

 
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Malus domestica 'Baker's Delicious' - afal bwyta, eating apple
Image: Moore, Dawn - NBGW
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Common name: afal bwyta, eating apple
Family: Rosaceae (Rose family)
Distribution: Gardd/Garden
Hardiness: (H6) Hardy-very cold winter. -20 to -15°C (USDA 6b/7a)
Life form: Deciduous tree • Coeden gollddail
Usage: Edible
Geirdarddiad / Etymology: Malus (MAY-lus): Ancient Latin name for an apple tree.
Geirdarddiad / Etymology: domestica (doh-MESS-tik-a): Of the household.
Geirdarddiad / Etymology: 'Baker's Delicious': Named after Baker’s Nursery of Codsall, Wolverhampton who first introduced the apple in 1932.
Dosbarthiad garddwriaethol / Horticultural Classification: Welsh Cultivar
Description: Found in a hedgerow in South Wales in 1930s. An early, medium to large, desert apple with thin, yellow skin flushed with orange-red, and crisp, juicy, aromatic, dark cream flesh that is easily bruised. Crops well in early autumn, with fruit storing to mid-autumn.
Links: Royal Horticultural Society

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