Applevariety
Ernst Bosch
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round in shape, first recorded in 1908; mildly tart and firm. Picked in early September.
Origin · Germany
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Background colour pale greenish yellow
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- intermediate to tall, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- small to mediumFruit width 49-53 mmFruit height 46-51 mm
- Appearance
- Russet pattern scattered russet and transparent dots
Origin & family
Where Ernst Bosch began
Recorded origin
Germany
Ernst Bosch’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Ernst Bosch
Germany
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- parentage
- Ananas Reinette x Manks Codlin
- fruit size
- small to medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate to tall, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 49-53 mm
- russet type
- scattered russet and transparent dots
- flesh colour
- white
- fruit height
- 46-51 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, coarse
- ground colour
- pale greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.