Applevariety
Schoner von Nordhausen
Also known as Belle de Nordhausen +3
Belle de Nordhausen · Nordgauzenskaya Krasavitsa · Nordhausen · Schoner aus Nordhausen
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-green skin, flat-round in shape, introduced in 1892; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in early October.
Origin · Nordhausen, Germany
Released 1892
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed pink to dark redBackground colour light yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish white
- Shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 69 mmFruit height 57 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye, slightly on bodyRusset pattern some russet at base
Origin & family
Where Schoner von Nordhausen began
Recorded origin
Nordhausen
Germany
- Released
- 1892
Schoner von Nordhausen’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Schoner von Nordhausen
Nordhausen, Germany
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Schoner von Nordhausen → AuraliaParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye, slightly on body
- synonyms
- Belle de Nordhausen, Nordgauzenskaya Krasavitsa, Nordhausen, Schoner aus Nordhausen
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 69 mm
- over colour
- flushed pink to dark red
- russet type
- some russet at base
- flesh colour
- yellowish white
- fruit height
- 57 mm
- flesh texture
- fine moderately firm
- ground colour
- light yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.