National Botanic Garden of Wales, United Kingdom
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Malus domestica 'Baker's Delicious'
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Image: Moore, Dawn - NBGW
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
Locations
1:
Orchards/Perllannau
(ORCHARD)
• Accession: 2012-0555*A • Provenance: Garden/Gardd
Area
Individual