Elise Rathke
syn. Elisa Rathke, Elisa Ratk, Eliza Ratke, Rote Reinette
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised either by Rathke of Pravst near Danzig or by A. Duhring of Elbinge, Germany. It was first recorded in 1884. Fruits have fine, soft flesh with a subacid and moderately sweet and spicy flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 9th May (10%) · 14th May (full) · 21st May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Tree
- weeping
- Flavour
- subacid, moderately sweet, spicy
- Ribbing
- not, or slightly ribbed at eye
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 53-60 mm
- Over colour
- flushed pink, streaked red
- Russet type
- brown dots
- Flesh colour
- yellowish green
- Fruit height
- 46-50 mm
- Skin texture
- greasy
- Flesh texture
- fine, soft
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 59.28 mm
- Crunch
- crumbly
- Height
- 55.26 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Juiciness
- dry
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- low-medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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