Applevariety
Kitchovka
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- subacid, slightly sweet
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed pink with darker streaksBackground colour whitish yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 57-62 mmFruit height 47-53 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges sometimes slightly ribbed at eyeRusset pattern russet dots and netting
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- tree
- very upright
- flavour
- subacid, slightly sweet
- ribbing
- sometimes slightly ribbed at eye
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 57-62 mm
- over colour
- flushed pink with darker streaks
- russet type
- russet dots and netting
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 47-53 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, rather coarse
- ground colour
- whitish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.