Applevariety
Odin
A dessert apple with whitish-yellow skin, ellipsoid in shape, raised in 1953 and introduced in 1966; mildly tart, juicy and crisp. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Institute of Horticultural Plant Breeding, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Released 1966
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed deep redBackground colour pale yellow
- Shape
- tall to intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Size
- medium
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eye
Origin & family
Where Odin began
Recorded origin
Institute of Horticultural Plant Breeding, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Netherlands
- Released
- 1966
Odin’s family
6 varieties · 5 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Odin
Institute of Horticultural Plant Breeding, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye
- parentage
- Golden Delicious x Ingrid Marie
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- tall to intermediate, rectangular, convex
- over colour
- flushed deep red
- ground colour
- pale yellow
Other apple varieties
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.