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Prinses Margriet
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1935 at the Horticultural Laboratory, Wageningen, The Netherlands. Introduced in 1955. Fruits have cream tinged green flesh with an acid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Jonathan x Cox's Orange Pippin
- Shape
- Truncate conical 2
- Size
- medium-large 2
- Height
- 58.50mm 2
- Width
- 67.50mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- high-very high 2
- Russet
- low 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1955 - 002
- Accession name
- Prinses Margriet
- Flowering time ›››
- 8th May10% flowering
13th MayFull (80%) flowering
20th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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