Florina
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round in shape. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Station de Recherches d'Arboriculture Fruitiere, Angers, France
Taste & texture
- Used for
- Dessert apple
Choose an apple for the combination of traits you enjoy, not sweetness or looks alone.
sensory study · Apples grown in the Drina Valley; consumer test in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Read the evidence
Different sensory attributes favored different cultivars. Topaz scored well for flavor and sourness, and Golden Delicious for appearance and sweetness, while the paper concludes that overall liking and juiciness did not differ significantly. The measured soluble-solids values also did not differ significantly among cultivars.
- Fruit tested
- Commercial maturity; stored at 2±1°C and 95% relative humidity, then 24 hours at room temperature before assessment
- Growing conditions
- MM106 rootstock, integrated production with minimum pesticide use
- Varieties compared
- Topaz, Florina, Goldstar, Golden Orange, Golden Delicious clone Reinders
- Use studied
- Fresh eating
- Published
- 2021
Origin & family
Where Florina began
Recorded origin
Station de Recherches d'Arboriculture Fruitiere, Angers
France
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- parentage
- Complex - see description x Complex - see description
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.