Applevariety
Dulmener Rosenapfel
Also known as Dulmener Herbstrosenapfel
Dulmener Herbstrosenapfel
A cooking and dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, round-conical in shape, raised in about 1870; sweet, aromatic and juicy. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Dulmen, Westphalia, Germany
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Scent
- aromatic
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- sweet-sour, aromatic
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour streaked dark redSkin texture very greasyBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish white
- Shape
- variable, tall to flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- medium to large
- Appearance
- Surface ridges prominent ribs base to apexRusset pattern sometimes a little russet
Origin & family
Where Dulmener Rosenapfel began
Recorded origin
Dulmen, Westphalia
Germany
Dulmener Rosenapfel’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Dulmener Rosenapfel
Dulmen, Westphalia, Germany
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Gravenstein → Dulmener RosenapfelParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet-sour, aromatic
- ribbing
- prominent ribs base to apex
- synonyms
- Dulmener Herbstrosenapfel
- parentage
- Gravenstein x Unknown
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- variable, tall to flat, truncate-conic, convex
- over colour
- streaked dark red
- russet type
- sometimes a little russet
- flesh colour
- yellowish white
- skin texture
- very greasy
- flesh texture
- fine
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.