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Prinses Marijke
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1935 at the Horticultural Laboratory, Wageningen, The Netherlands. Introduced in 1952. Fruits have fine, firm, tender flesh with a fairly sweet, subacid, aromatic flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Jonathan x Cox's Orange Pippin
- Shape
- Flat 2
- Size
- medium-large 2
- Height
- 55.50mm 2
- Width
- 70.50mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Purple 2
- Russet
- low 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
1955 - 004
- Accession name
- Prinses Marijke
- Flowering time ›››
- 6th May10% flowering
11th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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