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Stern Api
type: Dessert, Eating
synonyms: Fünfeckapfel, Fünfsterneapfel
summary: Dating back to the Roman Empire, this unique apple with its five-starred profile was thought to have been lost but rediscovered in 1981 and once again available.
identification: Small to medium size. Flattened with a distinct crown and pronounced five-cornered angular sides. Yellow base colour blushed red on the sun exposed face.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, fine-grained, firm. Juicy, sweet and slightly tart, lightly aromatic.
uses: An eating apple but also used for Christmas decoration due to its unique shape and bright colours.
origins: First mentioned by by German botanist Jean Bauhin in the late 1500s as the "pomum pentagonum" or five-starred apple, but thought to have originated with the Roman Empire and grown primarily in Germany and Switzerland.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous. Spreading.
cold storage: Keeps for three months.
vulnerabilities: Prone to scab.
harvest: In the middle of the fifth period.
pollination group: A
pollination peak: 1
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 12
harvest period: 5
flowers: White
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