Quince Anjerskaya from Gorin

Local low-Volga variety.

Medium-growing tree, with oval, dense, and heavily-leaved crown, consisting of 5-6 trunks.

Branches are medium, curved, slightly bent, light-brown, with many round stipules, densely hairy at the upper part. Leaves are medium-sized, oval-egg-shaped, light-green, shiny. Leaf margins are smooth and entire. Petioles are medium, lanceolate, almost entire, with only slight toothedness at the tips and a small number of glands.

Fruits are below average size, uniform, weighing 96–105 g (average fruit weight 100 g), flat-round, apple-shaped, ribbed, with a waxy skin. Hair is soft, weak, light-pink. Main color is bright yellow.

Flesh is creamy, firm, with many stone cells, medium-fleshed, sour-tasting, slightly astringent, with medium aroma. Chemical composition of fruits: dry matter 20.7% (max 22.0%), total sugars 9.6% (10.6%), titratable acids 1.4% (2.3%) on fresh weight, sugar-to-acid ratio 11.4 (18.3), ascorbic acid 22.1 mg/100g (35.7) on fresh weight.

Fruits can be stored for up to 60 days. During storage, fruits may be affected by skin mottling. Variety is intended for processing.

Variety is high-yielding.

Advantages of the variety: early fruiting, stable and good yield, uniform fruit size, good technological qualities.

Disadvantages of the variety: presence of a large number of stone cells in the flesh, susceptibility of fruits to skin mottling.