Applevariety
Astillisch
A dessert apple, large fruit, yellow skin. Picked in mid-August. Raised in 1929. Acid, juicy and soft.
Origin · former Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut, Muncheberg, Germany
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- soft
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour variable dark red flush (none to entirely covered)Skin texture bloomBackground colour yellow
- Size
- large
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye
Origin & family
Where Astillisch began
Recorded origin
former Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut, Muncheberg
Germany
Astillisch’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Astillisch
former Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut, Muncheberg, Germany
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye
- parentage
- Red Astrachan x Signe Tillisch
- fruit size
- large
- over colour
- variable dark red flush (none to entirely covered)
- skin texture
- bloom
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.