Applevariety
Steirischer Roter Marschansker
A dessert apple with white flesh and yellow skin, round in shape; sweet, mildly tart, aromatic and crisp. Picked in early October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- slightly sweet, subacid, slightly aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin texture thick, toughBackground colour greenish yellow tinged gold
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- intermediate to tall, rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 56-63 mmFruit height 49-58 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye, slightly on bodyRusset pattern russet dots
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- slightly sweet, subacid, slightly aromatic
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye, slightly on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate to tall, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 56-63 mm
- russet type
- russet dots
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 49-58 mm
- skin texture
- thick, tough
- flesh texture
- firm, crisp, slightly coarse
- ground colour
- greenish yellow tinged gold
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.