Antonovka
Also known as Antenovka +21
Antenovka · Antoni · Antonifka · Antonovca · Antonovka obiknovennaia · Antonovka obyknovennaya · Antonovka prostaya · Antonovskoe yabloko · Antonowka · Antonowka Zwykla · Antony · Bergamot · Cinnamon · Dukhovoe · German Calville · King of the Steppe · Nalivia · Possart's Nalivia · Possarts Moskauer Nalivia · Possarts Nalivia · Russian Gravenstein · Vargul
A cooking and dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; tart, juicy, crisp and soft. Picked in early September.
Origin · Kursk
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- soft
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- acid
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin texture smoothBackground colour pale yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- variable, flat to intermediate or tall, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 65-85 mmFruit height 50-75 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges prominent ribs at eye and on bodyRusset pattern russet in stalk cavity
Origin & family
Where Antonovka began
Recorded origin
Kursk
Russia
Antonovka’s family
5 varieties · 4 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
Antonovka
Kursk, Russia
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- acid
- ribbing
- prominent ribs at eye and on body
- synonyms
- Antenovka, Antoni, Antonifka, Antonovca, Antonovka obiknovennaia, Antonovka obyknovennaya, Antonovka prostaya, Antonovskoe yabloko, Antonowka, Antonowka Zwykla, Antony, Bergamot, Cinnamon, Dukhovoe, German Calville, King of the Steppe, Nalivia, Possart's Nalivia, Possarts Moskauer Nalivia, Possarts Nalivia, Russian Gravenstein, Vargul
- mother to
- Slavyanka Pobeda Chernenko Siugisdesert
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- variable, flat to intermediate or tall, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 65-85 mm
- russet type
- russet in stalk cavity
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- fruit height
- 50-75 mm
- skin texture
- smooth
- flesh texture
- soft, coarse
- ground colour
- pale yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.