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Prins Bernhard

Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession

Raised in 1935 at the Horticultural Laboratory, Wageningen, The Netherlands. Fruits have firm, fine, greenish white flesh with a subacid flavour.

Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Picking time
Early October
Flowering
10th May (10%) · 14th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
Flavour
subacid
Ribbing
slightly ribbed at eye
Fruit size
medium to large
Fruit shape
flat, truncate-conic, slightly convex
Fruit width
62-71 mm
Over colour
streaked orange-red
Russet type
russet at base and sometimes on body
Flesh colour
greenish white
Fruit height
48-55 mm
Skin texture
greasy
Flesh texture
firm, fine
Ground colour
greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
Size
large
Type
Dessert
Crown
weak
Shape
Globose conical
Russet
low
Ribbing
weak
Firmness
firm
Coarseness
fine
Greasiness
Medium
Over colour
Red
Flesh colour
Yellowish
Ground colour
Whitish yellow
Over colour amount
medium
Over colour pattern
striped/washed out

Source · National Fruit Collection

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