Applevariety
Gelber Munsterlander Borsdorfer
Also known as Borsdorfer Munsterlander Gelber
Borsdorfer Munsterlander Gelber
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; mildly tart, crisp, firm and rich. Picked in early October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- subacid, slightly rich
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour brownish red flush and streaksSkin texture slightly rough, rather toughBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- greenish cream
- Shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 56-63 mmFruit height 48-52 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges not ribbedRusset pattern russet traces over body, solid russet over base
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, slightly rich
- ribbing
- not ribbed
- synonyms
- Borsdorfer Munsterlander Gelber
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 56-63 mm
- over colour
- brownish red flush and streaks
- russet type
- russet traces over body, solid russet over base
- flesh colour
- greenish cream
- fruit height
- 48-52 mm
- skin texture
- slightly rough, rather tough
- flesh texture
- fine, firm, crisp
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.