Golden Delicious by sandra46

Photography • Landscape • posted on Sep 12, 2012

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The autonomous Italian provinces of (Italian-speaking)Trentino and(German-speaking) South Tirol form the autonomous region of Trentino-Alto Adige/South Tirol. Their economy is based mostly on tourism and the cultivation of grapes, pears and apples. Here, in almost every small plot of land in the plains and valley bottoms apples are grown, especially the Golden Delicious, Red Delicious, and Gala varieties. The Golden Delicious is a cultivar of apple with a yellow color. It is not closely related to the Red Delicious apple, however. This cultivar is a chance seedling possibly a hybrid of Grimes Golden and Golden Reinette. The original tree was found on the Mullins' family farm in Clay County, West Virginia, United States and was locally known as Mullin's Yellow Seedling and Annit apple. Anderson Mullins sold the tree and propagation rights to Stark Brothers Nurseries, which first marketed it as a companion of their Red Delicious in 1914. In 2010, an Italian-led consortium announced they had decoded the complete genome of the Golden delicious apple.It had the highest number of genes (57,000) of any plant genome studied to date.The Golden Delicious was designated the official state fruit of West Virginia by a Senate resolution on February 20, 1955. In Trentino-Alto Adige/South Tirol there are a number of Apple festivals in various towns and villages every year. Thanks for your kind comments.

Comments (44)

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Hendesse

11:45PM | Thu, 13 September 2012

Very beautiful shot and colors. Thanks for the informations too.

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VDH

2:39AM | Fri, 14 September 2012

Nice and interesting shot!

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erlandpil

3:38AM | Fri, 14 September 2012

nice place erland

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icerian

5:16AM | Fri, 14 September 2012

I admire your post work. Very well done with "delicious" mood of natur.

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anmes

10:19AM | Fri, 14 September 2012

Worked stunningly Sandra

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MagikUnicorn

9:23PM | Fri, 14 September 2012

Lovely

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blondeblurr

11:16AM | Sat, 15 September 2012

Interesting info on your apple variety ... Our climate here on the North/East coast of OZ, can be quite humid and a juicy, crunchy apple is hard to come by, except when they come from the cooler climate grown in Tasmania, but then they are kept in refrigeration far too long and don't taste much of anything anymore - by the time we get them onto the Super-market shelves ;( but we have plenty of other fruit to compensate for them! ;) BB

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