Applevariety
Orbai Alma
Also known as Apfel von Orba +9
Apfel von Orba · Magotlan · Orbaischer Apfel · Orbaiskaya verba-yablonya · Orbaiskaya Yablonya · Orbay-Alma · Orbayscher Apfel · Pomme Orbai · Waiden Apfel · Weiden Apfel
A cooking and dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; tart and soft. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Hungary
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- very acid
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour not, or slightly flushed orange-redSkin texture slightly greasyBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- tall, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex to straight, asymmetric
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 61-76 mmFruit height 62-73 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges strongly ribbed at eye and on body
Origin & family
Where Orbai Alma began
Recorded origin
Hungary
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- tree
- upright
- flavour
- very acid
- ribbing
- strongly ribbed at eye and on body
- synonyms
- Apfel von Orba, Magotlan, Orbaischer Apfel, Orbaiskaya verba-yablonya, Orbaiskaya Yablonya, Orbay-Alma, Orbayscher Apfel, Pomme Orbai, Waiden Apfel, Weiden Apfel
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- tall, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex to straight, asymmetric
- fruit width
- 61-76 mm
- over colour
- not, or slightly flushed orange-red
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 62-73 mm
- skin texture
- slightly greasy
- flesh texture
- soft, coarse
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.