Altlander Rosenapfel
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in the Altes Land, Germany. Known in about 1850. Fruits have firm, coarse flesh with an acid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- acid
- Ribbing
- ribbed in eye basin and on body
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- flat to sometimes intermediate, rectangular, convex to straight
- Fruit width
- 66-70 mm
- Over colour
- flushed bright orange-red streaked carmine
- Russet type
- russet patches
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Fruit height
- 50-61 mm
- Skin texture
- slightly greasy
- Flesh texture
- firm, coarse
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- strong-very strong
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm-very firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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