Geheimrat Doktor Oldenburg
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1897 at the Vine, Fruit & Horticulture Station, Geisenheim, Germany. Fruits have fine, softish flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Geheimrat Oldenburg, Oldenburg
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Minister von Hammerstein x Baumann's Reinette
- Mother to:
- Roba
- Clivia
- Father to:
- Elektra
Accession No.
1958 - 065
- Accession name
- Geheimrat Doktor Oldenburg
- Flowering time ›››
- 1st May10% flowering
7th MayFull (80%) flowering 14th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Early September 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Height
- 63.67 mm 1
- Width
- 66.75 mm 1
- Ribbing
- absent 1
- Crown
- very weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- very low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 1


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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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