Applevariety
Primus
A dessert apple with white flesh and yellow skin, round-conical in shape, raised in 1935; sweet and soft. Picked in early October.
Origin · Horticultural Laboratory, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- very sweet
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour striped orange-redSkin texture rough, greasyBackground colour greenish yellow to yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, straight
- Size
- large
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eyeRusset pattern russet dots and streaks
Origin & family
Where Primus began
Recorded origin
Horticultural Laboratory, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Netherlands
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- very sweet
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye
- parentage
- Reinette Rouge Etoilee x Cox's Orange Pippin
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, straight
- over colour
- striped orange-red
- russet type
- russet dots and streaks
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- skin texture
- rough, greasy
- flesh texture
- soft, coarse
- ground colour
- greenish yellow to yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.