Applevariety
Balder
A dessert apple, broad round conical in shape, yellow skin. Picked in mid-September. Raised in 1950.
Origin · Institute of Horticultural Plant Breeding, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Taste & texture
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Yellow
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- medium
Origin & family
Where Balder began
Recorded origin
Institute of Horticultural Plant Breeding, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Netherlands
Balder’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Balder
Institute of Horticultural Plant Breeding, 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
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- ribbing
- medium
- parentage
- James Grieve x Irish Peach
- over colour
- Red
- ground colour
- Yellow
Other apple varieties
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.