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Apple varieties, Germany

Halberstadter Jungfernapfel

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

Originated in the Harz area of Germany. It was recorded in 1885. Fruits have firm, rather coarse flesh with a moderately sweet and subacid flavour.

Family tree

Offspring in the atlas

Geheimrat Breuhahn Germany, 1895

Sources

Halberstadter Jungfernapfel (accession 1949 - 046), 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 september); the other names.