Applevariety
Bovarde
A cooking apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, oblong in shape; sweet, mildly tart and dry. Picked in late October.
Origin · Switzerland
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Juiciness
- dry
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour BrownBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 67.00 mmHeight 67.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Bovarde began
Recorded origin
Switzerland
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Oblong
- width
- 67.00 mm
- height
- 67.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- juiciness
- dry
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.