Applevariety
Stafner Rosen
Also known as Rose de Staefa +2
Rose de Staefa · Rose de Stafa · Stafner Rosenapfel
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart, aromatic and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid, aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed pale redSkin texture greasyBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- intermediate to flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 69-81 mmFruit height 61-70 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges strongly ribbed at eye, ribbed on bodyRusset pattern russet dots and patches, russet at base and apex
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, subacid, aromatic
- ribbing
- strongly ribbed at eye, ribbed on body
- synonyms
- Rose de Staefa, Rose de Stafa, Stafner Rosenapfel
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 69-81 mm
- over colour
- flushed pale red
- russet type
- russet dots and patches, russet at base and apex
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 61-70 mm
- skin texture
- greasy
- flesh texture
- firm, fine
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.