Applevariety
Prinz Albrecht von Preussen
Also known as Albrechtapfel +3
Albrechtapfel · Albrechtappel · Albrechtsapfel · Prinz Albrecht
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat in shape, raised in 1865; mildly tart and soft. Picked in late September.
Origin · Kamenz, Schleswig, Germany
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed orange-red to brownish red, streaked carmineSkin texture sticky, thinBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 69-78 mmFruit height 52-45 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges sometimes slightly ribbed at eyeRusset pattern russet at base
Origin & family
Where Prinz Albrecht von Preussen began
Recorded origin
Kamenz, Schleswig
Germany
Prinz Albrecht von Preussen’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Prinz Albrecht von Preussen
Kamenz, Schleswig, Germany
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Alexander → Prinz Albrecht von PreussenParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- sometimes slightly ribbed at eye
- synonyms
- Albrechtapfel, Albrechtappel, Albrechtsapfel, Prinz Albrecht
- parentage
- Alexander x Unknown
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 69-78 mm
- over colour
- flushed orange-red to brownish red, streaked carmine
- russet type
- russet at base
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 52-45 mm
- skin texture
- sticky, thin
- flesh texture
- fine, soft
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.