Oranje de Sonnaville
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by P. Sonnaville at the Fruit Research Station, Wilhelminadorp, The Netherlands. Introduced in 1971. Fruits have rather coarse-textured, sweet flesh with a rich, aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 13th May (10%) · 18th May (full) · 24th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- absent
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 84.01 mm
- Height
- 68.10 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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