Applevariety
Weigelts Zinszahler
Also known as Rotfranch +1
Rotfranch · Swedenborgs Muskatrenette
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-green skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-September.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- slightly sweet, subacid, slightly rich
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed deep red, a few darker stripesSkin texture rough, toughBackground colour green
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- rectangular to truncate-conic or conic, intermediate to tall, sometimes flat, convex to straight, angular
- Size
- mediumFruit width 58-69 mmFruit height 53-62 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on body, sometimes to baseRusset pattern half to almost entirely covered with russet
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- slightly sweet, subacid, slightly rich
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body, sometimes to base
- synonyms
- Rotfranch, Swedenborgs Muskatrenette
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- rectangular to truncate-conic or conic, intermediate to tall, sometimes flat, convex to straight, angular
- fruit width
- 58-69 mm
- over colour
- flushed deep red, a few darker stripes
- russet type
- half to almost entirely covered with russet
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- fruit height
- 53-62 mm
- skin texture
- rough, tough
- flesh texture
- firm, crisp, fine
- ground colour
- green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.