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Jonagold apple

Malus domestica

A very popular commercial variety, with a good flavour.

Parentage: Golden Delicious x Jonathan
Origin: USA
Introduced: 1943
Season: Nov-Jan
Apple cultivar ID: 103300

Jonagold is high quality American apple, developed in the 1940s. As its name suggests, this is a cross between a Jonathan and a Golden Delicious. It is quite widely grown, and unusually for a Golden Delicious cross, is not limited to the warm apple regions, although it is not often found in the UK.

Jonagold is a large apple, and makes a substantial snack. If you are struggling to eat your 5 portions of fruit and veg per day, this can help !

The colouring is yellow of Golden Delicious, with large flushes of red. This is a crisp apple to bite into, with gleaming white flesh. The flavour is sweet but with a lot of balancing acidity - a very pleasant apple.

Jonagold's other parent, Jonathan, is an old American variety which was discovered in the 1820s.

In the UK Jonagold sometimes appears in supermarkets in the spring packaged as "value" apples, often from Holland, and at a very low price. We are trying to find out more about these apples, but it seems that they are mainly "second" quality apples which are nearing the end of their storage life and are surplus to other uses.

Jonagold is widely-grown by commercial growers, and there are a number of more highly-coloured sports. Jonagored is probably the most widely known of these. Others include: Decosta, Primo, Rubinstar, Red Jonaprince.

Apple Tree Register

Do you have a tree of this variety in your garden or orchard? If so please register the details on our Apple Tree Register here.

Relationships to other apple varieties

Offspring of this variety:

Ambrosia

Parents and other ancestors of this variety:

Golden Delicious (parent)

Discuss Jonagold in our Forums

15 Nov 2009 01:17		Niamh
	Very commanly found grown in Ireland, often organically. Therefore it must be a fairly hardy apple. Some Irish-centric info can be found here.... http://www.theapplefarm.com/celtic/jonagored.htm
30 Oct 2009 09:43		Geoff Driscoll
	At a farmers' market they selling a multitude of different apples and as I eat an apple every day I was drawn to the one I'd never heard of. I bought a bag of Jonagold. A taste bomb, it is crisp, juicy a big. The best ever.
23 Sep 2009 15:41		Linda
	By far the best tasting apple I have ever tried, very similar to the apples I used to eat off my nans tree about 45 years ago I never knew what sort they were and have never found any as nice since until now these taste exactly the same, gorgeous.
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Identification photos

Jonagold

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Where to buy apple trees

The following fruit tree nurseries offer Jonagold apple trees for sale:

Keepers Nursery
Kent, United Kingdom
Deliver nationally
Available November-March
More supplier details

Cummins Nursery
New York, United States
Deliver nationally
Check website for availability
More supplier details

Where to buy apples

The following orchards and suppliers offer Jonagold apples for sale:

Apple tree register

The following Jonagold trees have been registered - click the name to view more details of each tree:

Florian Deisenhofer
Brush Prairie, Clark County WA, United States

Mrs Tricia Pursey
Redditch, Worcestershire, United Kingdom

Nynke Zijlstra
Eastermar, Friesland, Netherlands

Axel Kratel
Santa Cruz, California, United States

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Do you have a tree of this variety in your garden or orchard? If so please found out more about our Apple Tree Register here and register your apple trees.

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