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Elektra
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by Prof. M. Schmidt at the Agricultural Research Station, Munchenberg, Germany. Fruits have firm, juicy, sweet flesh with a good Cox-like flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Geheimrat Doktor Oldenburg
Accession No.
1977 - 092
- Accession name
- Elektra
- Flowering time ›››
- 3rd May10% flowering
7th MayFull (80%) flowering
14th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early October 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Globose 1
- Ribbing
- very weak 1
- Crown
- weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- low-medium 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Juiciness
- juicy 1
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 1
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019