Joseph Musch
syn. Iosif Mush, Musch
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originally found by Joseph Musch, Belgium. Recorded in 1872. Fruits are sweet to eat and also cook well. Good resistance to scab and mildew.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 30th April (10%) · 3rd May (full) · 10th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid, sweet
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- variable, intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- Over colour
- bright red flush and stripes
- Russet type
- russet at base
- Flesh colour
- whitish yellow
- Flesh texture
- rather coarse, dry
- Ground colour
- pale yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 89.18 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 66.75 mm
- Russet
- low-medium
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Juiciness
- dry
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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