Applevariety
Citron d'Hiver (Swiss)
Also known as Welsch Nageliapfel +1
Welsch Nageliapfel · Winterzitrone
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; mildly tart and crisp. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Valais, Switzerland
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour sometimes a red flush and stripesBackground colour yellow to brownish yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish white
- Shape
- intermediate to tall, conic, convex
- Size
- medium to large
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye
Origin & family
Where Citron d'Hiver (Swiss) began
Recorded origin
Valais
Switzerland
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye
- synonyms
- Welsch Nageliapfel, Winterzitrone
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- intermediate to tall, conic, convex
- over colour
- sometimes a red flush and stripes
- flesh colour
- yellowish white
- flesh texture
- crisp
- ground colour
- yellow to brownish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.