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Alkmene
Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.
Dessert
Measured Phenotype
- Brix
- 13.6 °Bx
source: GRIN
Each value is the highest-precedence :Assertion attached to this cultivar; full provenance (year, evidence type, confidence) is preserved in the graph.
Alkmene is a German dessert apple from 1930 bred from Cox's Orange Pippin and Doktor Oldenburg. It has a crisp, aromatic, juicy flesh with a subacid-to-sweet flavor, and is suitable for fresh eating from September through November.
Flavor & Texture
aromaticsubacidsweetcrispjuicy
Best Uses
fresh_eating
Lineage
Parents
Offspring
References
- USDA-NPGS
- PI 344547
- UK National Fruit Collection
- 111
- Wikidata
- Q337389