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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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

Use	Culinary
Colour	Flushed
Flavour	Subacid
Fruit size	Large
Picking time	Early Oct
Season of use	Oct-Jan
Tree vigour	Moderate
Tree habit	Spreading
Fruit-bearing	Spur-bearer
Cropping	Heavy
Pollination date	16
Pollination group	E
Self-fertility	Self-sterile triploid
Pollinators	Pollination partners