Applevariety
Minister von Hammerstein
Also known as Gammershtein +3
Gammershtein · Hamerstainska · Hammerstein · Hammerstenovo
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and yellow skin, flat-round in shape, raised in 1882; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in early October.
Origin · Geisenheim, Germany
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour slight brownish red flushBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- creamy white, green core line
- Shape
- variable, flat to intermediate, truncate-conic to conic, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 64-75 mmFruit height 54-65 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on body
Origin & family
Where Minister von Hammerstein began
Recorded origin
Geisenheim
Germany
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- synonyms
- Gammershtein, Hamerstainska, Hammerstein, Hammerstenovo
- mother to
- Geheimrat Doktor Oldenburg
- parentage
- Landsberger Reinette x Unknown
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- variable, flat to intermediate, truncate-conic to conic, convex
- fruit width
- 64-75 mm
- over colour
- slight brownish red flush
- flesh colour
- creamy white, green core line
- fruit height
- 54-65 mm
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.