Applevariety
Directeur van de Plassche
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, raised in 1935; mildly tart and juicy. Picked in early October.
Origin · Institute for Horticultural Plant Breeding, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- slightly subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed and striped dark brownish redBackground colour golden yellow
- Flesh
- whitish, tinged green
- Shape
- intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex to straight
- Size
- mediumFruit width 62 mmFruit height 62 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye, broad ribs on bodyRusset pattern occasional coarse russet patch
Origin & family
Where Directeur van de Plassche began
Recorded origin
Institute for Horticultural Plant Breeding, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Netherlands
Directeur van de Plassche’s family
5 varieties · 4 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Directeur van de Plassche
Institute for 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
- flavour
- slightly subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye, broad ribs on body
- parentage
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Jonathan
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex to straight
- fruit width
- 62 mm
- over colour
- flushed and striped dark brownish red
- russet type
- occasional coarse russet patch
- flesh colour
- whitish, tinged green
- fruit height
- 62 mm
- flesh texture
- fine, dense
- ground colour
- golden yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.