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Ernst Bosch

Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession

Raised by D. Uhlhorn, Germany. It was first recorded in 1908. Fruits have firm, coarse flesh with a subacid flavour.

Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Picking time
Early September
Flowering
1st May (10%) · 6th May (full) · 13th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
Flavour
subacid
Fruit size
small to medium
Fruit shape
intermediate to tall, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
Fruit width
49-53 mm
Russet type
scattered russet and transparent dots
Flesh colour
white
Fruit height
46-51 mm
Flesh texture
firm, coarse
Ground colour
pale greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
Size
small-medium
Type
Dessert
Crown
weak
Shape
Globose
Russet
low
Ribbing
weak-medium
Firmness
firm
Coarseness
coarse
Over colour
Orange
Flesh colour
White
Ground colour
Whitish yellow
Over colour amount
absent
Over colour pattern
washed out

Source · National Fruit Collection

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