Elstar
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1955 by Dr T. Visser at IVT,Wageningen, The Netherlands. Fruits are sweet, crisp and juicy.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Golden Delicious x Ingrid Marie
- Sports:
- Bel-El
- Daliest
- Elnica
- Elshof
- Reinstar
- Red Elstar
Accession No.
1974 - 005
- Accession name
- Elstar
- Flowering time ›››
- 14th May10% flowering
17th MayFull (80%) flowering 24th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Early October 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Height
- 56.25 mm 1
- Width
- 66.88 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- very weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Juiciness
- juicy-very juicy 1
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 1


- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
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