Elstar

Intersection of Golden Delicious × Ingrid Marie

Elstar is a sort of culture apple (Malus domestica). Elstar was grown in 1955 in the Netherlands at the Institute for Horticultural Plant Breeding in Wageningen and in 1972 entered in the stud book. The breeding of Golden Delicious and Ingrid Marie is the apple variety that was grown in 2012 in Germany the most.

Description

Elstar is an aromatic and juicy, fine-sour apple variety with white- yellowish pulp.

Cultivation

As far as yield and disease and pest susceptibility, Elstar is beneficial and relatively resistant. Nevertheless, he has a tendency to apple scab and a very strong tendency to powdery mildew and collar rot. The tendency to biennial is often not easy to master. The apple preferred cooler climates.

Harvest is from beginning to end of September. The apple requires only a short period of growth, the cold storage it is to about the end of November durable, the CA storage until February. Elstar is ripe enough to eat with the harvest immediately.

Mutants

A redder mutation of Elstar is Ellista. Red Elstar and Elshof are more colorful than the basic shape with striped crossings, while Red Flame is almost solid red. These are mostly grown under hail nets.

Allergies

According to a study by the German Allergy and Asthma Federation many apple allergists are often younger apple varieties such as Elstar, Jonagold or Golden Delicious with allergic reactions such as tingling and swelling of the lips and itching in the mouth and throat. In extreme cases it can also cause shortness of breath and asthma attacks. The symptoms most commonly appear in people who are allergic to pollen also of birch, alder and hazel. Is responsible for this so-called cross-allergy to a particular protein, which is found in apple. It's called Mal d 1, according to Malus domestica, the scientific name of the apple culture, and is similar to a protein in birch pollen so strong that the body's immune system, both proteins can not tell them apart so it responds to both with an allergic reaction.

In the breeding

Elstar was the end of the 21st century 20./Anfang relatively often used in breeding schorfresistenter apple varieties. By crossing the varieties Elstar and Priscilla example was the new variety Santana. By crossing with a breeding places in France Dalinbel arose.