Katja
syn. Katy
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1947 at Balsgard Fruit Breeding Institute, Sweden. It was introduced in 1966. Fruits are crisp and juicy with a pleasant flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 21st May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- conic, convex, regular
- Over colour
- flushed scarlet
- Flesh texture
- firm
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium-high
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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