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Ingrid Marie
type: Cider, Eating, Sauce
synonyms: Christmas apple, Hoed Orange, Marie
summary: Deep crimson, tangy, fresh eating apple ideal for home gardens. Keeps well in cool storage.
identification: Fruit is small to medium in size, oblate and slightly ribbed. The background colour is yellow tending to gold as the apple ripens, over which is a dark red flush, with a blueish cast when fully ripe. Look for fine, light tan lenticels which are most abundant toward the eye and fairly sparse toward the stem. The stem is long and slender, set in a wide, deep and russeted cavity.
characteristics: Flesh is cream-coloured, firm and fine textured, juicy and sweet with only slight tartness. Flavour is light and reminiscent of the Cox parent. The red colour of the skin continues into the flesh under it.
uses: Best eaten out of hand and, as such, grows well to home gardens.
origins: Found growing in 1910 as a chance seedling in the garden of Hoed School near Flemloese on the Funen (Fyn) Island in Denmark. It was named for the daughter of teacher K. Madsen who died at a very young age. It was later marketed by C. Matthiesen of Korsor. The pollen parent is sometimes identified as Cox’s Pomona , but in 2003 DNA testing confirmed that Ingrid Marie was most likely to have been a cross between Cox’s Orange Pippin and Guldborg .
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, upright spreading. A spur bearer that crops well annually. The apple does tend to crack around the eye as it ripens, but this has no effect on the flavour. Likely to bear fruit every other year.
progeny: Several mutations of this apple have evolved including the Karin Schneider apple.
cold storage: Keeps up to two months in cold storage where it becomes tangy sweet, but kept in storage more than that, the apple tends to become mealy.
vulnerabilities: Moderately resistant to most disease, specifically resistant to scab.
harvest: Ready for harvest in the middle of the fourth period.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 10
ploidism: Diploid, self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 8
brix: 12
harvest period: 4
hardiness: 4
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