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Glockenapfel
Culinary apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Synonyms:
- Altlander Glockenapfel, Echter Weisser Glockenapfel, Pomme Cloche, Schweizer Glockenapfel, Weisser Winterglockenapfel
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1948 - 613
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1948 from Switzerland. Fruits have crisp flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Accession name
- Glockenapfel
- Flowering time ›››
- 2nd May10% flowering
8th MayFull (80%) flowering
16th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Truncate conical 1
- Ribbing
- strong 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- low-medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- washed out 1
- Russet
- very low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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