Jonagold

Late season. A cross between Jonathan and Golden delicious. The fruit are striped red over a yellow ground color, fine textured, juicy, and are sweet and with a bit more acidity than Golden Delicious. Consistantly rated as one of the finest culinary apples. The fruit are usually large, altho' on the very dwarfing MM27 rootstock they are smaller. Requires a pollenizer (self infertile due to being triploid). Jonagold seems a slightly variable fruit in coloring, and skin color seems to change a bit according to the climate where it is grown (it may have a red blush rather than striping in areas with strong sunlight) and clone (some more predominantly red skin colored clones have been selected). Very vigorous and with a spreading growth habit, Jonagold must be grafted on a dwarfing rootstock to control its size.