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Wealthy apple

Excellent dessert and multi-use apple, picked a few weeks early for cooking. Beautiful fruit ripens to bright red across the surface. Crisp, juicy flesh. Refreshing, sprightly, vinous flavor.

Last updated 29 May 2011.

Summary

  • Species: Malus domestica
  • Parentage: Seedling of Cherry Crabapple
  • Origin: Minnesota, United States
  • Introduced: 1860
  • Orange Pippin Cultivar ID: 197700

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Current rating: 4.5 out of 5. Total votes cast: 2
 

Visitor comments

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06 Feb 2012 DianeWASHINGTON/LINCOLN, United States
On our family's ranch, near where the old homestead cabin stood, is an old apple tree, believed to have come by train with my great-grandfather in 1890. The variety was, to us, a mystery until 2004. We called them "canyon apples" because it was in the canyon below our farm. We liked the apples, but LOVED the applesauce and apple pies made from them. We had the tree identified through a program at Washington State University in 2004, as a Wealthy. The tree is now over half dead and still produces few to many apples, depending on the year. We are now pursuing the opportunity to have a graft taken from it, so that we can pass on the variety to family members for years to come
20 Dec 2011 MarciaWA/ KING, United States
A small tree was planted in our back yard by my dad, probably around 1958 or 1959. He bought it, though in ignorance of it's greatness, from a local nursery. The tree never grew large, but was very productive of the best apples I ever tasted. Sweet-tart, green burnished with a blush of red, popping with juice after an audible CRACK when bit. We could never get enough of them. Mostly, we ate them raw, right off the ground or tree. Once, a swarm of honey bees weighed down a branch, presumably with a queen at the center. The bees stayed put while we called a wood-shop teacher at our local high school, who was also a bee-keeper. He came over in his special "suit"and collected the mass of bees by holding a big box under the branch, then giving the branch one good shake. The whole swarm plopped into the box! Unfortunately, after my parents sold that house and moved, the new owner cut the tree down. We found that out when we stopped to look at our old (remodeled) house. I told the owner that the tree was a Wealthy apple, one of the finest, and asked him why he cut it down. He replied "the raccoons got all the apples anyway." :( It was clear to me he had no idea what he had done. I've never found a wealthy apple for sale in any store I've visited in the Northwest, Washington or otherwise. Still hoping, though.
20 Oct 2011 Michel LachaumeQUEBEC, Canada
A wonderfully tasty apple, we fight over the descriptions of its overtones: is there a lingering taste of banana or is it strawberry? Or both? It depends on the people. The taste is addictive. This apple gives its very distinctive character to the famous cider from the Pedneault orchard in L'Île -aux-Coudres in Quebec. Quite disease resistant and very cold tolerant too.
17 Oct 2011 Paul WaliczekWISCONSIN, United States
our best apple, very good for eating or baking, crisp and slightly tart. everyone loves them

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