Applevariety
Geheimrat Doktor Oldenburg
Also known as Geheimrat Oldenburg +1
Geheimrat Oldenburg · Oldenburg
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and green-yellow skin, round-conical in shape, raised in 1897; mildly tart. Picked in early September.
Origin · Vine, Fruit & Horticulture Station, Geisenheim, Germany
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Texture
- fine, loose texture
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed and striped redBackground colour yellowish green to orange
- Flesh
- yellowish white, tinged green
- Shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 68 mmFruit height 60 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye
Origin & family
Where Geheimrat Doktor Oldenburg began
Recorded origin
Vine, Fruit & Horticulture Station, Geisenheim
Germany
Geheimrat Doktor Oldenburg’s family
11 varieties · 10 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Geheimrat Doktor Oldenburg
Vine, Fruit & Horticulture Station, Geisenheim, Germany
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye
- synonyms
- Geheimrat Oldenburg, Oldenburg
- father to
- Elektra
- mother to
- Roba Clivia
- parentage
- Minister von Hammerstein x Baumann's Reinette
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 68 mm
- over colour
- flushed and striped red
- flesh colour
- yellowish white, tinged green
- fruit height
- 60 mm
- flesh texture
- fine, loose texture
- ground colour
- yellowish green to orange
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.