Applevariety
New German
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-green skin, broad round-conical in shape; mildly tart and soft. Picked in early September.
Origin · Herefordshire, England
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed deep orange red, streaked dark to brownish redSkin texture slightly greasyBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- white, tinged green
- Shape
- variable, flat to tall, conic, convex to concave
- Size
- largeFruit width 71-78 mmFruit height 58-72 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges strongly ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern some russet at base
Origin & family
Where New German began
Recorded origin
Herefordshire, England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- strongly ribbed at eye and on body
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- variable, flat to tall, conic, convex to concave
- fruit width
- 71-78 mm
- over colour
- flushed deep orange red, streaked dark to brownish red
- russet type
- some russet at base
- flesh colour
- white, tinged green
- fruit height
- 58-72 mm
- skin texture
- slightly greasy
- flesh texture
- somewhat soft, coarse
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.