Applevariety
Bloody Ploughman
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and crisp. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Carse of Gowrie, Scotland
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- slightly sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour almost entirely flushed bright red to deep purplish redBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- greenish white, tinged red
- Shape
- intermediate to flat, sometimes tall, conic to truncate-conic
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 66-74 mmFruit height 55-65 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges strongly ribbed base to apex, up to 10 very prominent ribs at eyeRusset pattern pale dots, rough russet radiating from cavity over base
Origin & family
Where Bloody Ploughman began
Recorded origin
Carse of Gowrie, Scotland
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- slightly sweet, subacid
- ribbing
- strongly ribbed base to apex, up to 10 very prominent ribs at eye
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, sometimes tall, conic to truncate-conic
- fruit width
- 66-74 mm
- over colour
- almost entirely flushed bright red to deep purplish red
- russet type
- pale dots, rough russet radiating from cavity over base
- flesh colour
- greenish white, tinged red
- fruit height
- 55-65 mm
- flesh texture
- crisp
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.