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Steirischer Roter Marschansker
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Appears to be a form of Steirischer Marschansker. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1951 from Germany. Fruits have firm, crisp, slightly coarse, greenish white flesh with a slightly sweet, subacid and slightly aromatic flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1951 - 201
- Accession name
- Steirischer Roter Marschansker
- Flowering time ›››
- 5th May10% flowering
10th MayFull (80%) flowering
18th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early October 1
- Size
- small-medium 1
- Shape
- Globose 1
- Ribbing
- weak 1
- Crown
- weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- absent 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- washed out 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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