Applevariety
Bukhovitsa
A cooking apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; tart, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- very acid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed light red with darker streaksSkin texture greasyBackground colour green
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- intermediate to tall, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 63-70 mmFruit height 55-63 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges strongly ribbed base to apex
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- very acid
- ribbing
- strongly ribbed base to apex
- parentage
- Sport of Thought to be Skrinyanka
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate to tall, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 63-70 mm
- over colour
- flushed light red with darker streaks
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 55-63 mm
- skin texture
- greasy
- flesh texture
- firm, crisp, a little coarse
- ground colour
- green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.