Applevariety
Prinses Marijke
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin, flat in shape, raised in 1935 and introduced in 1952; sweet, mildly tart, aromatic and firm. Picked in early October.
Origin · Horticultural Laboratory, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Released 1952
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour PurpleBackground colour Green yellow
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 70.50 mmHeight 55.50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak-medium
Origin & family
Where Prinses Marijke began
Recorded origin
Horticultural Laboratory, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Netherlands
- Released
- 1952
Prinses Marijke’s family
5 varieties · 4 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Prinses Marijke
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
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 70.50 mm
- height
- 55.50 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- weak-medium
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Jonathan x Cox's Orange Pippin
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Purple
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.