Applevariety
Gustavs Dauerapfel
Also known as Gustav Dauerapfel +2
Gustav Dauerapfel · Gustav Durabil · Gustavovo trvanlive
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Wadenswil, Switzerland
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- sweet, slightly subacid, perfumed
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed orange, striped redBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- tall, truncate-conic, convex, sometimes straight
- Size
- mediumFruit width 51-62 mmFruit height 51-58 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern occasional russet
Origin & family
Where Gustavs Dauerapfel began
Recorded origin
Wadenswil
Switzerland
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, slightly subacid, perfumed
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- synonyms
- Gustav Dauerapfel, Gustav Durabil, Gustavovo trvanlive
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- tall, truncate-conic, convex, sometimes straight
- fruit width
- 51-62 mm
- over colour
- flushed orange, striped red
- russet type
- occasional russet
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- fruit height
- 51-58 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, fine
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.