Kaiser Wilhelm
syn. Cesarz Wilhelm, Emperator Wilhelm, Empereur Guillaume, Imperator Vilgelm, Reneta Czerwona, Vilemovo, Vilgelm, Wilhelmapfel
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Discovered in about 1800 by Head Teacher Hesselman in Witzhelden, Kreis Solingen, Germany. Introduced by the mid 1800s. Fruits have crisp, fine flesh with a subacid, sweet and spicy flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 9th May (10%) · 15th May (full) · 21st May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid, sweet, spicy
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 61-76 mm
- Over colour
- often much flushed crimson with darker stripes
- Russet type
- russet in cavity and on base
- Flesh colour
- yellowish white
- Fruit height
- 50-65 mm
- Flesh texture
- fine, crisp to tender
- Ground colour
- pale yellow shaded deeper yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 83.25 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 74.05 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Juiciness
- dry-medium
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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