Prinses Beatrix
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1935 at the Horticultural Laboratory, Wageningen, The Netherlands. Fruits have firm, fine, rather tough flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed on body
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 62-74 mm
- Over colour
- striped and sometimes flushed orange-red to red
- Russet type
- russet at base and sometimes on body
- Flesh colour
- cream, tinged green
- Fruit height
- 50-60 mm
- Skin texture
- tough, slightly greasy
- Flesh texture
- firm, fine, rather tough
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- absent
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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