Search Options
Copyright Information
You may use and re-use the information featured on this website (not including logos) free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government Licence.
Kaiser Franz Joseph
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Thought to have originated in Germany. It was known before 1876. Fruits have tender, fine, whitish flesh with a sweet, vinous, aromatic flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Francis Joseph, Francois Joseph, Kaiseren Elizabeth
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 52.00mm 2
- Width
- 69.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Whitish green 2
- Over Colour
- Brown 2
- Greasiness
- Medium 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1947 - 316
- Accession name
- Kaiser Franz Joseph
- Flowering time ›››
- 5th May10% flowering
10th MayFull (80%) flowering
18th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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