Purple agate apple
| Purple agate apple | |
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| Art | Cultivated apple ( Malus domestica ) |
| List of apple varieties | |
The Purple Agatapfel also Agatapfel or Purple Winteragatapfel called, is a variety of culture apple ( Malus domestica ).
It is a small, blunt, rounded and evenly built table apple. The skin is frosted, initially yellow and later greenish-yellow. The ripe apple has an intense red (purple) color and is striped. The apple is ready to eat from December and can be stored until April.
In Theodor Engelbrecht's (Braunschweig 1889) list of “Germany's apple varieties” , the purple agate apple bears the number 468.
The apple variety Zuccalmaglios Renette is a cross between the purple agate apple and the pineapple renette .
literature
- Willi Votteler: Directory of apple and pear varieties. Obst- und Gartenbauverlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-87596-086-6 , p. 367.
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann-Heinrich Rolff: The apple - variety names and synonyms
- ↑ Reprint from the bait. Weekly cli for agriculture, trade and commerce in Dorpat, 1891 No. 40. To increase fruit growing in our north. (PDF; 381 kB)
- ↑ Fruit variety list Engelbrecht (PDF; 343 kB)