Esopus Spitzenburg
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Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated at Esopus, Ulster County, New York, USA. Known before 1790. Fruits have crisp, tender flesh with a subacid and aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 19th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Tree
- short spurs
- Flavour
- subacid, aromatic
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed on body
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex to straight
- Over colour
- almost completely covered bright red
- Russet type
- dotted
- Flesh colour
- yellow
- Flesh texture
- moderately fine, crisp, tender
- Ground colour
- deep yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 63.58 mm
- Height
- 61.32 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Juiciness
- dry
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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