Applevariety
Tare de Ghinda
Also known as Hartapfel +3
Hartapfel · Tare de Ghinda verde · Windauer Hartapfel · Winter Dauerapfel
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and whitish-green skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in late October.
Origin · Ghinda, Bistrita, Romania
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- sweet to subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour sometimes a faint orange flush,Skin texture toughBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- intermediate, tall or flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 57-77 mmFruit height 48-66 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed base to apex and strongly at eyeRusset pattern russet dots and occasional patches,
Origin & family
Where Tare de Ghinda began
Recorded origin
Ghinda, Bistrita
Romania
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet to subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed base to apex and strongly at eye
- synonyms
- Hartapfel, Tare de Ghinda verde, Windauer Hartapfel, Winter Dauerapfel
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- intermediate, tall or flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 57-77 mm
- over colour
- sometimes a faint orange flush,
- russet type
- russet dots and occasional patches,
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 48-66 mm
- skin texture
- tough
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.