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Variety of Apple · Malus domestica

Very long-keeping winter apple from Pillnitz.

🇩🇪 Germany 1988DessertStorage

Taste & characteristics

Taste

firmsoursweetaromatic

Susceptibility & resistance

ScabPowdery mildew

Profile

Parentage: Clivia × Undine
Breeder: Institut für Obstforschung Dresden-Pillnitz
Pollination: self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety

Flowering & harvest

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Flowering
Fruit harvest
Storage

Given in thirds of a month (early / mid / late) for the northern hemisphere in a temperate climate; altitude and season shift them.

Description

Fruit

Small, very firm, sweet-aromatic, moderately juicy fruit; crisp, firm flesh, high sugar with enough acidity and a hint of cinnamon; overall low acidity (grade 2).

Growth

Weak-growing tree, needs a vigorous rootstock; not suited to standard trees in orchard meadows.

Yield

Heavy cropping.

Notes

For home and allotment gardens in well-aerated, not too warm sites; a very good keeper (about seven months).

Care

Needs regular pruning and a vigorous rootstock; choose cool, well-aerated sites.

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