Variety profile
Apple ‚Elstar’
Malus domestica · Rosaceae
- Ripening
- mittelspät
- Harvest
- Week 38 to 41
- Vigour
- mittel
- Origin
- Niederlande
- Introduced
- 1955
- Storage life
- 1 month
- Pollination group
- C
- Use
- Tafel
- Pollinator
- Cox Orange, Gravensteiner, Topaz
- Rootstock
- M9, M26
- Disease resistance
- Mehltau: mittel, Schorf: gering
About this variety
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‚Elstar’ is the most popular table apple in the DACH region: crisp, juicy, with a balanced sweet-acid play. It bears early and regularly and is a good pollinator for other varieties. You should keep an eye on scab.
Crisp and juicy with refreshing acidity and fine aroma. The ideal snack and palate-cleansing apple straight from the tree; only short shelf life, so enjoy fresh.
Care and diseases
Soil, feeding, pruning, companion planting and diseases apply to every variety of this species alike. You will find the full guidance on the species page.
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