Applevariety
Thurgauer Weinapfel
Also known as Kleiner Weinapfel +2
Kleiner Weinapfel · Petite Vineuse · Vineuse de Thurgovie
A cooking apple with yellowish flesh and yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, aromatic, crisp and firm. Picked in late October.
Origin · Thurgau, Switzerland
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour Dark RedBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- small-mediumWidth 55.00 mmHeight 47.50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges very weak
Origin & family
Where Thurgauer Weinapfel began
Recorded origin
Thurgau
Switzerland
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- small-medium
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 55.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 47.50 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- very weak
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Kleiner Weinapfel, Petite Vineuse, Vineuse de Thurgovie
- coarseness
- coarse
- over colour
- Dark Red
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.