Atalanta (Netherlands)
syn. Atalanta
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1935 by Professor Sprenger at Wageningen, The Netherlands. Fruits have firm flesh with an aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 9th May (10%) · 13th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- very slightly ribbed at eye
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- tall, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 58 mm
- Over colour
- striped orange-red overall
- Russet type
- dotted and netted russet
- Flesh colour
- whitish
- Fruit height
- 58 mm
- Flesh texture
- firm
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- absent
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 68.29 mm
- Height
- 66.73 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium-high
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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