Geheimrat Doktor Oldenburg
syn. Geheimrat Oldenburg, Oldenburg
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1897 at the Vine, Fruit & Horticulture Station, Geisenheim, Germany. Fruits have fine, softish flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 1st May (10%) · 7th May (full) · 14th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 68 mm
- Over colour
- flushed and striped red
- Flesh colour
- yellowish white, tinged green
- Fruit height
- 60 mm
- Flesh texture
- fine, loose texture
- Ground colour
- yellowish green to orange
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- very weak
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 66.75 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 63.67 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- absent
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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