Bismarck apple

Chance seedling

The Bismarck apple, also called Bismarck, Prince Bismarck, is a species of apple culture. It is a robust, storable large cooking apple for low strain and higher altitudes.

The Bismarck apple came in 1870 from the city of Bismarck in Tasmania over New Zealand and England about 1888 to Europe. Under the name of Prince Bismarck, there is another variety of apple which is not, however, identical with the variety described here.

The variety is very suitable for cultivation in bush form, and is therefore in spite of their other properties, today represented quite strong in the garden orchards. In good soil they can be mounted up to medium altitudes. The strong growth in the first years, although reduced, but occasional, stronger Rückschitte remain necessary later. The yield is a medium early and is more regularly.

Flowering starts mid-early, but is not sensitive. The Bismarck apple is large fruits, round and flat schwachgerippt. His skin is yellow - white to greenish, the top color from light to reddish brown. The flesh is white. The apple tastes sour, has a slight spicy taste and is ready to eat as a winter apple, starting in November and storable in the ideal case to March. The fruit is still suitable as an eating apple, as well as very good for cooking, frying and baking.

However, the somewhat prone to diseases such as scab, mildew and canker of fruit trees tree is frost resistant in wood. The variety is an economic apple, which is suitable for orchard cultivation.