Weisses Seidenhemdchen
syn. Chemise de Soie, Chemise de Soie Blanche, Chemise-de-Soie, Chemise-de-Soie Blanche, Chemisette Blanche, Chemisette de Soie, Chemisette-de-Soie, das Seidenhemdchen, de Dames, de Demoiselle, de Soie, Horset's Schlotter Apfel, Horset's Schlotterapfel, Pomme de Dames, Pomme de Demoiselle, Pomme de Soie, Rose Soyeuse, Schilgen's Birnformiger Apfel, Seidenhemdchen, Soyette, Syden Hemdje, Zidjen Hemdge, Zijden Hemdje
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in Europe. Described in 1598. Fruits have rather soft, fine, white flesh with a sweet, slightly subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, slightly subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- intermediate to tall, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 59-65 mm
- Over colour
- flushed pinkish red, darker streaks
- Russet type
- some russet at base, russet dots
- Flesh colour
- white
- Fruit height
- 52-53 mm
- Flesh texture
- rather soft, fine
- Ground colour
- pale yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Globose
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- very weak
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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