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Jan Steen
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised at the Plant Breeding Laboratory, Wageningen, The Netherlands. It was received by the National Fruit Trials in 1955. Fruits have fairly crisp, fine flesh with a slightly acid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Sternreinette (Reinette Rouge Etoilee) x Cox's Orange Pippin
- Shape
- Truncate conical 2
- Size
- medium-large 2
- Height
- 60.50mm 2
- Width
- 70.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Pink 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- high-very high 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1955 - 009
- Accession name
- Jan Steen
- Flowering time ›››
- 11th May10% flowering
18th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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