Applevariety
Jan Steen
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; tart and crisp. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Plant Breeding Laboratory, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour PinkBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour coverage high-very highSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 70.00 mmHeight 60.50 mm
Origin & family
Where Jan Steen began
Recorded origin
Plant Breeding Laboratory, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Netherlands
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 70.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 60.50 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- parentage
- Sternreinette (Reinette Rouge Etoilee) x Cox's Orange Pippin
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Pink
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.