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Pancake Apple

An excellent old cooking apple from Germany. An interesting garden alternative to Bramley.

Origin: Germany, 1951

Pollination: Pancake Apple is a self-sterile triploid and would require a pollinator to produce a crop.Find pollination partners >

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Pancake Apple apple trees for sale

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History and description of Pancake Apple

Raised in Germany and widely grown as a culinary apple in North Germany. We have renamed it from its original German name Horneburger Pfannkuchen which literally means Pancake Apple of Horneburg. Was occasionally imported to the U.K. when Bramley's Seedlings were in short supply.

A very attactive delicately coloured large apple. Variable, short-round- conical to round shape with some fruit oblong. Heavily ribbed, irregular and usually five-crowned at apex. Pale green background skin colour becoming pale yellow. Flushed pale red. A few short broken red stripes. Very smooth dry skin. White, fairly soft flesh, with a fruity sharp flavour. Cooks to a mild flavoured puree. Keeps very well and mellows in storage.

A tree of moderate vigour. Spreading. Heavy cropper.

Characteristics of Pancake Apple apple trees

UseCulinary
ColourFlushed
FlavourSubacid
Fruit sizeLarge
Picking timeEarly Oct
Season of useOct-Jan
Tree vigourModerate
Tree habitSpreading
Fruit-bearingSpur-bearer
CroppingHeavy
Pollination date16
Pollination groupE
Self-fertilitySelf-sterile triploid
PollinatorsPollination partners
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