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Art Cultivated apple ( Malus domestica )
origin Maastricht
known since before 1790
ancestry

unknown

List of apple varieties

The Rote Sternrenette is an old variety of the cultivated apple . It is grown in orchards and is considered worth preserving. Synonyms are: 'Calville Etoilée', 'Pomme de Coeur', 'Herzapfel', 'Rote Herbstrenette' and 'Weihnachtsapfel'.

The dark red colored apple used to be considered “the classic Christmas apple” and was very widespread. The red star reed is still available in most of the larger nurseries to this day.

The hallmark of the apple are star-shaped, concise rust-like lenticels on the mostly dark red fruit skin.

Culture and harvest

As a high trunk , the tree grows vigorously; Due to the strong growth, the initial yields are relatively low and start late (from the 10th to 12th year after planting). In full yield, the curtain is satisfactory to good.

With its high-spherical, robust crown, the high trunk has an impact on the landscape. When pruning fruit trees , the high trunk is raised in a broad, pyramidal shape.

Heyday

Flowering starts late and is long lasting. The late flowering can lead to a lack of pollination and thus to fluctuating yields. Since the flowers prefer to form on the long fruit wood, it is advisable to leave the fruit wood long when pruning.

Good pollinators are Ontario , Champagne Renette , Cox, Gloster , Grahams Jubiläum, Baumanns Renette , James Grieve , Landsberger Renette and Weißer Klarapfel .

It is also reported that older trees would only bloom on one side.

fruit

The apples are medium-sized, weigh about 115 g, round and grow particularly evenly. The skin is smooth, dry, tough and washed out in color from purple, scarlet to dark red. Typical are the numerous conspicuous peel points as rust stars or triangles, partly lightly umhöfe, the fruit is often finely pale bluish frosted.

The flesh is yellowish-white, under the skin often reddish like vascular bundles, medium firm, only moderately juicy, sweet-sour, somewhat scented, weakly aromatic.

Harvest and storage

The fruits do not hang very windproof, so that a pre-harvest fall can be observed during autumn storms. Fortunately, the windfalls are relatively insensitive and hardly rot.

It is ready to be picked from around the beginning of September. The apple then ripens and can be stored until about mid-January before it becomes floury.

The fruits of this variety are suitable for fresh consumption and for juice. Traditionally, they were often used as a red polished Christmas apple due to their attractive appearance. The variety is less suitable for making mash, as it takes on a brownish color.

Expectations

The tree prefers deep, moist soils and humid locations. Due to its health and vigor, it is well suited for orchards .

It is resistant to disease and frost. Only specks and codling moth can cause problems.

history

The variety probably originated in the Maastricht area . It was first described in 1830. Initially, the variety was widespread in the Lower Rhine region.

Special mentions

The Red Star Renette was the orchard variety of the year :

in 2000 at the Association of Horticultural Associations Saarland / Palatinate
in 2001 at the State Association for Fruit Growing, Gardening and Landscape Baden-Württemberg
In 2004 at the Rhön apple initiative

literature

Web links

Commons : Rote Sternrenette  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Red star ribbon at "Noah's Ark" - Society for the Conservation of Cultivated Plants and Their Development (pdf) (accessed on March 9, 2018)
  2. a b Bongerd Groote Veen
  3. Apple varieties, Herbert Petzold & Ernst Halwaß, Neumann Verlag, 1st edition (1979)
  4. a b Plate No. 38, Our best German fruit varieties, Bechtholdverlag, Wiesbaden approx. 1930
  5. Gerhard Friedrich, Werner Petzold: Handbook of fruit varieties - 300 fruit varieties in words and pictures , Eugen Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, p. 140
  6. http://www.rhoenapfel.de/?lid=13