Astrachan Large Fruited
syn. Klarapple, Lindgrens Astrakan, Stor Klar Astrakan
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Found in the 1850s near Stockholm, Sweden by E. Lindgren and introduced by him in the early 1860s. Fruits have firm, cream flesh with a sweet and subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early August
- Flowering
- 28th April (10%) · 4th May (full) · 11th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Width
- 70.50 mm
- Height
- 62.00 mm
- Ribbing
- strong
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Greasiness
- Weak
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- low
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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