Applevariety
Zoete Ermgaard
Also known as Sweet Ermgaard
Sweet Ermgaard
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, narrow conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Netherlands
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- dry
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness WeakSurface colour OrangeBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Narrow conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 62.00 mmHeight 57.00 mm
- Appearance
- lowSurface ridges medium
Origin & family
Where Zoete Ermgaard began
Recorded origin
Netherlands
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Narrow conical
- width
- 62.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 57.00 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Sweet Ermgaard
- juiciness
- dry
- coarseness
- coarse
- greasiness
- Weak
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.