Greensleeves (apple)

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Greensleeves (apple)
Art Cultivated apple ( Malus domestica )
origin East Malling Research
breeder Dr. Alston
Breeding year 1966
Launch 1971
ancestry

Cross of
' James Grieve ' x ' Golden Delicious '

List of apple varieties

Greensleeves is a cultivar of the cultivated apple ( Malus domestica ).

description

Greensleeves is a medium-sized green-yellow apple. The basic color is light green at the beginning and turns into a whitish yellow. The almost non-existent body color is a light orange. Like its parent variety James Grieve, it is juicy and sweet, but the creamy white pulp is firmer than James Grieve.

Similar to James Grieve, the shell is a bit hard, but drier than James Grieve. Russeting occurs only in the form of small, inconspicuous rust spots.

Greensleeves has a ball to cylinder shape. The evenly shaped apple has a hint of ribs. The long, thin stem protrudes far beyond the medium-deep stem pit.

Cultivation

The apple ripe early in the season at the beginning of September and lasts until the end of November. Although the apples are already ready for harvest in early September, they can stay on the tree until October, which makes Greensleeves so popular in private gardens. Greensleeves loses its taste intensity in November. The yield is very large, similar to that of the parent strain Golden Delicious. Without thinning , it only produces small apples. Greensleeves bears fruit on both the short shoots and the tips of the long shoots.

The tree grows upright and compact, and shows weak to moderate growth. Greensleeves is one of the few apple varieties that are self-pollinating. Its flowers are somewhat frost-resistant.

The Bolero and Limelight varieties are derived from Greensleeves .

history

The variety is named after the English folk song of the same name . The Royal Horticultural Society honored Greensleeves with an Award of Garden Merit in 1981 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Rosie Sanders: The Apple Book. Delius Klasing 2012, ISBN 978-3-7688-3467-4 , p. 60
  2. ↑ a b c d East Malling Research: Fruit & Hop Varieties Suitable for the Garden ( Memento of November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 5.2 MB), 2005
  3. ↑ a b Greensleeves , orangepippin.com
  4. ^ A b Royal Horticultural Society: Malus domestica 'Greensleeves' PBR (D) AGM