Apple: Redlove Era

A sweet-tart apple with complex berry flavour and red flesh.

• Vigour: Medium
• Precociousness: Medium
• Resistances: Scab
• Size of fruit: Medium
• Flowering: Early
• Fruiting: Mid-autumn
• Cropping: Medium
• Ploidy: Diploid
• Fruit colour: Red
• Flesh colour: Red
• Leaf colour: Green
• Parentage: Not listed
• Descendants: Unknown
• Biennialism: None observed
• Growth habit: Standard
• Self-fertile: No

Developed by Markus Kobelt in 2010, in Gallen, Upper Rhine Valley (Switzerland).

Redlove apples have deep red flesh, which has been determined to have more than 30% more anti-oxidants (anthocyanin) than most other breeds, this is partially why they brown so slowly when cut.
They keep moderately well in storage (up to 2 months), but remain slightly tart.
Owing to their red-flesh heritage, they are less crisp than they are hard, although they are noticeably better than most other red-flesh varieties.

NOTE: I have yet to try this apple directly, and so have relied on others for information related to this variety.
This entry will be updated if I am able to purchase a tree.