Applevariety
Roter Munsterlander Borsdorfer
Also known as Borsdorfer Munsterlander Roter
Borsdorfer Munsterlander Roter
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- subacid, slightly sweet
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour almost entirely covered with deep red flushSkin texture greasyBackground colour golden yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- intermediate to tall, rectangular, slightly convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 62-74 mmFruit height 51-65 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges sometimes slightly ribbed on bodyRusset pattern dense grey-green russet on base, sometimes dots & lines on body
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, slightly sweet
- ribbing
- sometimes slightly ribbed on body
- synonyms
- Borsdorfer Munsterlander Roter
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- intermediate to tall, rectangular, slightly convex
- fruit width
- 62-74 mm
- over colour
- almost entirely covered with deep red flush
- russet type
- dense grey-green russet on base, sometimes dots & lines on body
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 51-65 mm
- skin texture
- greasy
- flesh texture
- firm, somewhat coarse
- ground colour
- golden yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.