Applevariety
Hoskreiger
Also known as Heidelocher +2
Heidelocher · Horskreiger · Hoskrieger
A cooking apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; mildly tart and crisp. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- tender
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour streaked pale redBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 89 mmFruit height 70 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eyeRusset pattern russet dots
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye
- synonyms
- Heidelocher, Horskreiger, Hoskrieger
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 89 mm
- over colour
- streaked pale red
- russet type
- russet dots
- flesh colour
- white
- fruit height
- 70 mm
- flesh texture
- tender, crisp
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.