Applevariety
Elise Rathke
Also known as Elisa Rathke +3
Elisa Rathke · Elisa Ratk · Eliza Ratke · Rote Reinette
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape, first recorded in 1884; sweet, mildly tart, soft and spicy. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- subacid, moderately sweet, spicy
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed pink, streaked redSkin texture greasyBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish green
- Shape
- intermediate to flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 53-60 mmFruit height 46-50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges not, or slightly ribbed at eyeRusset pattern brown dots
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- tree
- weeping
- flavour
- subacid, moderately sweet, spicy
- ribbing
- not, or slightly ribbed at eye
- synonyms
- Elisa Rathke, Elisa Ratk, Eliza Ratke, Rote Reinette
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 53-60 mm
- over colour
- flushed pink, streaked red
- russet type
- brown dots
- flesh colour
- yellowish green
- fruit height
- 46-50 mm
- skin texture
- greasy
- flesh texture
- fine, soft
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.