Applevariety
Altlander Rosenapfel
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat-round in shape; tart and firm. Picked in late September.
Origin · Altes Land, Germany
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- acid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed bright orange-red streaked carmineSkin texture slightly greasyBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- flat to sometimes intermediate, rectangular, convex to straight
- Size
- mediumFruit width 66-70 mmFruit height 50-61 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed in eye basin and on bodyRusset pattern russet patches
Origin & family
Where Altlander Rosenapfel began
Recorded origin
Altes Land
Germany
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- acid
- ribbing
- ribbed in eye basin and on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat to sometimes intermediate, rectangular, convex to straight
- fruit width
- 66-70 mm
- over colour
- flushed bright orange-red streaked carmine
- russet type
- russet patches
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 50-61 mm
- skin texture
- slightly greasy
- flesh texture
- firm, coarse
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.