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Roter Sauergrauech
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
A more highly coloured sport of Sauergrauech. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1947 from Switzerland. Fruits have fine, soft, greenish white flesh with a slightly sweet, vinous, aromatic flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Sauergrauech Rouge
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Oblong 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 54.00mm 2
- Width
- 57.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Brown 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
1947 - 059
- Accession name
- Roter Sauergrauech
- Flowering time ›››
- 5th May10% flowering
9th MayFull (80%) flowering
14th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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