Applevariety
Prinses Beatrix
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape, raised in 1935; mildly tart and firm. Picked in early October.
Origin · Horticultural Laboratory, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour striped and sometimes flushed orange-red to redSkin texture tough, slightly greasyBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- cream, tinged green
- Shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 62-74 mmFruit height 50-60 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed on bodyRusset pattern russet at base and sometimes on body
Origin & family
Where Prinses Beatrix began
Recorded origin
Horticultural Laboratory, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Netherlands
Prinses Beatrix’s family
5 varieties · 4 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Prinses Beatrix
Horticultural Laboratory, 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 on body
- parentage
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Jonathan
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 62-74 mm
- over colour
- striped and sometimes flushed orange-red to red
- russet type
- russet at base and sometimes on body
- flesh colour
- cream, tinged green
- fruit height
- 50-60 mm
- skin texture
- tough, slightly greasy
- flesh texture
- firm, fine, rather tough
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.