Stafner Rosen
syn. Rose de Staefa, Rose de Stafa, Stafner Rosenapfel
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Thought to be of American origin. Described in 1924. Fruits have firm, fine, greenish white flesh with a sweet, subacid, aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 9th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 19th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid, aromatic
- Ribbing
- strongly ribbed at eye, ribbed on body
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 69-81 mm
- Over colour
- flushed pale red
- Russet type
- russet dots and patches, russet at base and apex
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Fruit height
- 61-70 mm
- Skin texture
- greasy
- Flesh texture
- firm, fine
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- strong
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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