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Gewurzluiken
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- medium-large 2
- Height
- 60.00mm 2
- Width
- 67.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- high-very high 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
1951 - 175
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1951 from Germany. Fruits have firm flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
- Accession name
- Gewurzluiken
- Flowering time ›››
- 11th May10% flowering
17th MayFull (80%) flowering
24th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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