Applevariety
Bushey Grove
A cooking apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, raised in 1897 and introduced in about 1926; tart, juicy, firm and soft. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Bushey Grove, Hertfordshire
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 74.00 mmHeight 60.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Bushey Grove began
Recorded origin
Bushey Grove, Hertfordshire
Bushey Grove’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Bushey Grove
Bushey Grove, Hertfordshire
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 74.00 mm
- height
- 60.00 mm
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Queen x Bismarck
- coarseness
- coarse
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Red
- 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.