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Rode Wagenaar
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised at IVT, Wageningen, the Netherlands. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1963. Fruits are crisp and juicy with a refreshing flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1963 - 053
- Accession name
- Rode Wagenaar
- Flowering time ›››
- 2nd May10% flowering
6th MayFull (80%) flowering
16th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Truncate conical 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium-high 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/washed out/solid flush 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Juiciness
- juicy 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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