Applevariety
Khoroshavka alaya
Also known as Bella Scarlatta +3
Bella Scarlatta · Ikorocavka Alaja · Khorochavka alaia · Khorochavka Alaja
A cooking and dessert apple with pinkish flesh and whitish-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; tart and crisp. Picked in mid-August.
Origin · Russia
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour PinkBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Pinkish
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 60.00 mmHeight 55.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Khoroshavka alaya began
Recorded origin
Russia
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Culinary / Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 60.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 55.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- synonyms
- Bella Scarlatta, Ikorocavka Alaja, Khorochavka alaia, Khorochavka Alaja
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Pink
- flesh colour
- Pinkish
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.