Applevariety
Rheinischer Krummstiel
Also known as Gestriefte Romer +1
Gestriefte Romer · Pomme du Rhin a queue courbee
A cooking apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, oval in shape; sweet, mildly tart, crisp and firm. Picked in late October.
Origin · Germany
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour BrownBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Ellipsoid
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 73.50 mmHeight 75.50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges strong
Origin & family
Where Rheinischer Krummstiel began
Recorded origin
Germany
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Ellipsoid
- width
- 73.50 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 75.50 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- strong
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Gestriefte Romer, Pomme du Rhin a queue courbee
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.