Applevariety
Altlander Pfannkuchenapfel
Also known as Altlander +1
Altlander · Echter Pfannkuchenapfel
A cooking apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; tart and soft. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Alten land, near Hamburg, Germany
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- acid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour occasionally red stripedSkin texture smooth, toughBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- cream, tinged green
- Shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 70 mmFruit height 55 mm
Origin & family
Where Altlander Pfannkuchenapfel began
Recorded origin
Alten land, near Hamburg
Germany
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- acid
- synonyms
- Altlander, Echter Pfannkuchenapfel
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 70 mm
- over colour
- occasionally red striped
- flesh colour
- cream, tinged green
- fruit height
- 55 mm
- skin texture
- smooth, tough
- flesh texture
- soft, fine
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.