Applevariety
Sacramentsappel
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; mildly tart and rich. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Plant Breeding Institute, Wageningen, Netherlands
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- tender
- Flavour
- subacid, slightly rich
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed orange-red, striped deeper redBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- intermediate to tall, rectangular, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 53-71 mmFruit height 50-64 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges prominent ribs base to apexRusset pattern traces of russet, sometimes russet at base
Origin & family
Where Sacramentsappel began
Recorded origin
Plant Breeding Institute, Wageningen
Netherlands
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, slightly rich
- ribbing
- prominent ribs base to apex
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- intermediate to tall, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 53-71 mm
- over colour
- flushed orange-red, striped deeper red
- russet type
- traces of russet, sometimes russet at base
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- fruit height
- 50-64 mm
- flesh texture
- fine, tender
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
- flowering time
- late
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.