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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