Applevariety
Atalanta (Netherlands)
Also known as Atalanta
Atalanta
A dessert apple, round conical in shape, whitish-yellow skin, white flesh. Picked in late-September. Raised in 1935. Subacid, aromatic and firm.
Origin · Wageningen, The Netherlands
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour striped orange-red overallBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- whitish
- Shape
- tall, rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 58 mmFruit height 58 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges very slightly ribbed at eyeRusset pattern dotted and netted russet
Origin & family
Where Atalanta (Netherlands) began
Recorded origin
Wageningen, The Netherlands
Netherlands
Atalanta (Netherlands)’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Atalanta (Netherlands)
Wageningen, The Netherlands
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- very slightly ribbed at eye
- synonyms
- Atalanta
- parentage
- Reinette Rouge Etoilee x Cox's Orange Pippin
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- tall, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 58 mm
- over colour
- striped orange-red overall
- russet type
- dotted and netted russet
- flesh colour
- whitish
- fruit height
- 58 mm
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.