Spaanse Keiing
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in East Flanders, Belgium. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1948. Fruits have firm, rather coarse, whitish flesh with an acid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
- Flowering
- 10th May (10%) · 16th May (full) · 24th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- acid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at apex, very prominent ribs on body
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- tall, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 57-66 mm
- Over colour
- light and dark red stripes
- Russet type
- russet at base, green and grey dots
- Flesh colour
- whitish
- Fruit height
- 53-63 mm
- Skin texture
- greasy
- Flesh texture
- firm, rather coarse
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium-strong
- Shape
- Oblong
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- strong
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- dry-medium
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- low
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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