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Glockenapfel
type: Culinary, Dessert, Pie, Sauce
synonyms: Altlander Glockenapfel, Berliner, Hasenkopf, Jerusalem, Pomme Cloche, Schweizer Glockenapfel, Swiss Glockenapfel, Weisser Winterglockenapfel. Glockenapfel is used as a synonym for Prinzenapfel .
summary: Traditionally this bell-shaped apple is an essential ingredient used by European bakers for making apple strudel.
identification: Medium size tending to large, bell-shaped, oblong to oblong-conic with a slight waist. Often lopsided. The base colour is green maturing to yellow and blushed red on the sun-exposed face. Indistinct, medium-size, dark russet lenticels are abundant against the blushed surface. Networked russetting over the surface radiating out from the stem cavity. The calyx is medium-size and closed, set in a medium deep and narrow basin which is surrounded by a five-knobbed crown. The stem is medium long and slender, set in a deep and narrow cavity which is russetted.
characteristics: The flesh is white to pale yellowish, very firm, crisp and dry. Tart, some sweetness, with an unusual aroma.
uses: A cooking apple that keeps its shape when cooked. Also eaten out of hand, though it tends to be quite sharp.
origins: Thought to have originated in either Switzerland or in the region of Hamburg in Germany during the mid-1800s. Once widely grown in Europe
cultivation: Upright domed profile. Vigorous as a young tree, less so once it matures. Does best in temperate climates. Produces best crops every other year. Tends to drop fruit as it ripens.
cold storage: Keeps up to six months, but apples need to harvested while still slightly green in colour if they are to be stored. Best flavours emerge after about six weeks.
vulnerabilities: Slightly susceptible to scab. Occasionally prone to canker.
harvest: Best harvested in the first half of the fifth period.
notes: The name derived from the shape literally means Bell Apple.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 10
ploidism: Diploid. Partly self fertile but does best with a source of valid pollen.
cold storage weeks: 24
hardiness: 5
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