Applevariety
Bietigheimer
A cooking apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; tart and crisp. Picked in early September.
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Released 1870
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Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- acid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour almost entirely covered with bright pinkish red to deep red flushBackground colour pale greenish yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- intermediate to flat or tall, truncate-conic, convex, asymmetric
- Size
- largeFruit width 79-99 mmFruit height 72-81 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges broad ribs at eye and on bodyRusset pattern russet dots
Origin & family
Where Bietigheimer began
- Released
- 1870
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- acid
- ribbing
- broad ribs at eye and on body
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- intermediate to flat or tall, truncate-conic, convex, asymmetric
- fruit width
- 79-99 mm
- over colour
- almost entirely covered with bright pinkish red to deep red flush
- russet type
- russet dots
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- fruit height
- 72-81 mm
- flesh texture
- fine, hard, crisp
- ground colour
- pale greenish yellow