Applevariety
Weisses Seidenhemdchen
Also known as Chemise de Soie +22
Chemise de Soie · Chemise de Soie Blanche · Chemise-de-Soie · Chemise-de-Soie Blanche · Chemisette Blanche · Chemisette de Soie · Chemisette-de-Soie · das Seidenhemdchen · de Dames · de Demoiselle · de Soie · Horset's Schlotter Apfel · Horset's Schlotterapfel · Pomme de Dames · Pomme de Demoiselle · Pomme de Soie · Rose Soyeuse · Schilgen's Birnformiger Apfel · Seidenhemdchen · Soyette · Syden Hemdje · Zidjen Hemdge · Zijden Hemdje
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round in shape; sweet, mildly tart and soft. Picked in late September.
Origin · Europe
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- sweet, slightly subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed pinkish red, darker streaksBackground colour pale yellow
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- intermediate to tall, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 59-65 mmFruit height 52-53 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eyeRusset pattern some russet at base, russet dots
Origin & family
Where Weisses Seidenhemdchen began
Recorded origin
Europe
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, slightly subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye
- synonyms
- Chemise de Soie, Chemise de Soie Blanche, Chemise-de-Soie, Chemise-de-Soie Blanche, Chemisette Blanche, Chemisette de Soie, Chemisette-de-Soie, das Seidenhemdchen, de Dames, de Demoiselle, de Soie, Horset's Schlotter Apfel, Horset's Schlotterapfel, Pomme de Dames, Pomme de Demoiselle, Pomme de Soie, Rose Soyeuse, Schilgen's Birnformiger Apfel, Seidenhemdchen, Soyette, Syden Hemdje, Zidjen Hemdge, Zijden Hemdje
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate to tall, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 59-65 mm
- over colour
- flushed pinkish red, darker streaks
- russet type
- some russet at base, russet dots
- flesh colour
- white
- fruit height
- 52-53 mm
- flesh texture
- rather soft, fine
- ground colour
- pale yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.