Bean apple

Bean apple
Art	Cultivated apple ( Malus domestica )
origin	Neuwied basin , Middle Rhine
known since	approx. 1750-1800
ancestry
Random seedling
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The Bohnapfel , even Big Rheinischer Bohnapfel or only Rheinischer Bohnapfel called, is one of the winter apples counting old varieties of culture apple ( Malus domestica ).

fruit

Bean apple

The fruit is small to medium in size. It is taller than it is wider, and the shape of the fruit varies significantly more than that of other apple varieties. The skin is smooth and shiny and has a green color, which only turns yellowish-green when ripe, with well-contoured red stripes on the sunny side and fine skin points and occasionally delicate russeting . The flesh is hard and sour when the tree is ripe . It only becomes mild, juicy and slightly sweet and sour after ripening.

The fruit has clearly visible sepals in a shallow to medium-deep calyx cavity. The stem is short to moderately long, partly thickened and sits in a not particularly deep but narrow stem cavity, which is usually somewhat rusty in the lower area.

The apples ripen from mid-October to early November and are ready to be eaten from February. They can be kept until June. If the apples can fully ripen on the tree, the bean apple is one of the best apple varieties for use as a commercial apple and for the production of fruit juice and brandy . The variety is less recommended as a table apple .

tree

The trees of the bean apple can get very old and form large, broadly spherical crowns . The very robust and resilient trees only bear apples after a few years, the yield fluctuates greatly from year to year due to alternation . The variety is quite climate-tolerant and is therefore also suitable for cultivation in higher and exposed locations, among other things because the fruits are firmly attached to the tree. However, the fruits do not ripen sufficiently on northern slopes and in too high altitudes.

The variety flowers medium-early and long-lasting, but is triploid and therefore unsuitable as a pollen donor. It is not very susceptible to scab, but is prone to fruit tree cancer in very dry or wet soil .

history

The variety was discovered as a chance seedling between 1750 and 1800 in the Neuwied Basin on the Middle Rhine . In the 1920s, the bean apple was one of the three apple varieties that were chosen as imperial fruit varieties . Today it is one of the most common traditional varieties in Rhineland-Palatinate .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} excerpt from our best German fruit varieties , Bechtholdverlag, Wiesbaden, approx. 1930. (PDF; 482 kB) Retrieved on May 25, 2014 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} streuobstapfel.de. Retrieved May 25, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Large bean apple, winter apple; Noah's Ark. (PDF; 239 kB) Retrieved October 11, 2017 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Variety recommendations for orchards in Rhineland-Palatinate, DLR Rheinhessen-Nahe-Hunsrück and the State Office for the Environment, Water Management and Trade Inspection. (PDF; 133 kB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 7, 2014 ; Retrieved April 4, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

literature

• Walter Hartmann : Color Atlas of Old Fruit Types , Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 2000

Web links

Commons : Bohnapfel  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

• Old drawing of the bean apple (by Wilhelm Lauche (1827–1883) German pomology , 6 volumes)
• List of characteristics of the bean apple , fruit growing advice Baden-Württemberg