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Schoner von Nordhausen

syn. Belle de Nordhausen, Nordgauzenskaya Krasavitsa, Nordhausen, Schoner aus Nordhausen

Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession

Raised in the early 1800s in the garden of Kaiser, Nordhausen, Germany. Introduced in 1892. Fruits have fine, moderately firm, yellowish white flesh with a sweet, subacid flavour.

Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Picking time
Early October
Flowering
2nd May (10%) · 8th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
Flavour
sweet, subacid
Ribbing
ribbed at eye, slightly on body
Fruit size
medium
Fruit shape
intermediate to flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
Fruit width
69 mm
Over colour
flushed pink to dark red
Russet type
some russet at base
Flesh colour
yellowish white
Fruit height
57 mm
Flesh texture
fine moderately firm
Ground colour
light yellow
NFC characterisation
Size
medium
Type
Dessert
Crown
medium-strong
Shape
Flat globose
Russet
low
Ribbing
weak-medium
Firmness
firm-very firm
Over colour
Brown
Flesh colour
Cream
Ground colour
Whitish green
Over colour amount
low
Over colour pattern
washed out

Source · National Fruit Collection

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