The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Germany

Edelborsdorfer

The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:

Thought to be of German origin, either from Borsdorf in Meissen or near Leipzig. Recorded as early as the 1500s. Fruits have firm flesh with a sweet, vinous flavour.

Sources

  1. Edelborsdorfer (accession 1951 - 166), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (mid october); the other names.
  2. Ploidy level (descriptor 115159), study MALUS.PLOIDYDETERMINATION.2008, USDA Agricultural Research Service, GRIN-Global, 2008. Supports: its ploidy, diploid, measured by flow cytometry on accession PI 590124 of the USDA apple collection at Geneva, New York.

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