Applevariety

Rubens

A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, oblong in shape, introduced in 1955; sweet and firm. Picked in early October.

Origin · Horticultural Laboratory, Wageningen, Netherlands

Released 1955

Taste & texture

Sweetness
sweet
Firmness
firm
Texture
Flesh grain fine
Used for
Dessert apple

How to spot it

Skin
Skin greasiness WeakSurface colour RedBackground colour YellowSurface colour coverage high-very high
Flesh
Cream
Shape
Oblong
Size
mediumWidth 57.00 mmHeight 54.00 mm

Origin & family

Where Rubens began

Recorded origin

Horticultural Laboratory, Wageningen

Netherlands

Released
1955

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Field notes

Original source notes
Fruit & tree
size
medium
type
Dessert
shape
Oblong
width
57.00 mm
height
54.00 mm
russet
very low
firmness
firm
parentage
Reinette Rouge Etoilee x Cox's Orange Pippin
coarseness
fine
greasiness
Weak
over colour
Red
flesh colour
Cream
ground colour
Yellow
over colour amount
high-very high
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