The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Germany

Friedrich der Grosse

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

Thought to be of German origin but received by the National Fruit Trials in 1947 from France. Fruits have fine, rather hard flesh with a sweet, subacid, nutty flavour.

Sources

  1. Friedrich der Grosse (accession 1947 - 326), 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 (early october).