Akane (apple)

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Akane (apple)
Synonyms Primerouge, Prime Red, Tohoku No. 3, Tokyo Rose
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Art Cultivated apple ( Malus domestica )
origin Morioka National Breeding Institute, Japan
Breeding year 1937
Launch 1970
ancestry

Cross of
Jonathan x Worcester Pearmain

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Akane , also Primerouge , Prime Red , Tohoku No. 3 , Tokyo Rose is a cultivar of the cultivated apple ( Malus domestica ).

description

The medium-sized apple is spherical and slightly ribbed. Its smooth shell is almost completely colored red on a yellow base color. Its pulp is white. The juicy, firm pulp has a balanced taste of sweet and sour flavors that is more reminiscent of classic European than American or Asian varieties.

When cooking and baking, Akane retains both shape and taste relatively well.

The tree itself is weak. The fruit branches grow upright.

Cultivation

Akane is comparatively frost hardy. The tree produces a large yield. The harvest time is from the beginning to the middle of the apple season from the end of August to the beginning of September. If there is no harvest, no fruit falls, but the apples spoil on the tree. Like most early apple varieties, Akane does not store very well.

The variety is robust against fire blight , but moderately susceptible to apple scab .

The diploid apple is not self-fertilizing.

history

The apple was in the national breeding institute Morioka in Japan from Jonathan x Worcester Pearmain bred and introduced to the market 1937th Akane himself is the descendant of Sansa ( Gala x Akane), also bred in Morioka . Akane is particularly widespread in cultivation in North America. The apple has been found in Europe since 1970 and was imported from France to Germany in the 1980s.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Orangepippin.com: Akane
  2. ^ New England Apples: A Healthy Outlook For New England Apples; Introducing Akane and Sansa
  3. ↑ a b Apfel.ch: Primerouge ( Memento from December 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Simon Egger, Eduard Holliger, Gabriella Silvestri, David Szalatnay, Beat Felder, Klaus Gersbach, Richard Hollenstein, Urs Müller: Fire blight susceptibility of pome fruit varieties ( Memento of December 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) , Agroscope Changins-Wädenswil Research Station
  5. ^ Franco Weibel and Andreas Häseli: Organic Apple Production in: DC Ferree and IJ Warrington (eds.): Apples. Botany, Production and Uses. CABI Publishing 2003, ISBN 0-85199-592-6 . P. 561
  6. ↑ Walter Guerra: Japan's apple cultivation and variety breeding in: Obstbau / Weinbau 9/2007 p. 259
  7. ^ Johann-Heinrich Rolff: The apple - variety names and synonyms BoD - Books on Demand, 2001 ISBN 3-8311-0956-7 p. 10

literature

  • Silbereisen / Götz / Hartmann, Obstsorten-Atlas , Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart, 1996, ISBN 3-8001-5537-0

Web links

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