Applevariety
Holstein
Also known as Holstein Cox +3
Holstein Cox · Holsteiner Cox · Holsteiner Gelber Cox · Vahldiks Cox Seedling No. III
A dessert apple with green-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; sweet, aromatic, juicy and firm. Picked in late September.
Origin · Eutin, Holstein, Germany
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Flavour
- rich
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- largeWidth 76.00 mmHeight 72.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Holstein began
Recorded origin
Eutin, Holstein
Germany
Holstein’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Holstein
Eutin, Holstein, Germany
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Cox's Orange Pippin → HolsteinParent · Recorded
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On the label
Produce label codes recorded for Holstein
3346
Organic labels add a leading 9.
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 76.00 mm
- height
- 72.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- sports
- Holstein NFT Sport
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Holstein Cox, Holsteiner Cox, Holsteiner Gelber Cox, Vahldiks Cox Seedling No. III
- parentage
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Unknown
- coarseness
- coarse
- over colour
- Orange
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.