Angyal Dezso
type: Dessert
synonyms: Angyal Dezs
summary: This Hungarian cultivar from the 1900s has a sweet-tart juice and nutty flavour.
identification: Medium size. Round-conic. Greenish yellow base colour which is flushed dull red on the sun-exposed surface. Marked with an abundance of dark lenticels and rough russetting. The calyx is small, semi-closed and set in a deep cavity. The stem is very short and stout, in a moderately deep and funnel shaped cavity. Russetting radiates from the stem cavity onto the shoulder of the apple.
characteristics: Flesh is firm, crisp, coarse-grained. Sweet, slightly tart with a distinct nutty flavour.
uses: dessert
origins: Grown in Hungary 1900. No indication of its parentage, yet it was -- and still is -- considered to be good enough to be named in honour of the Director of the Budapest School of Horticulture during the early 1900s.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, upright spreading, spur bearer.
cold storage: Keeps four months in storage.
harvest: Late in the fifth period.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 15
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 16
harvest period: 5
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