Applevariety
Korobovka
Also known as Cardinal +14
Cardinal · Karabovka · Karolkowski · Kiarolkowski · Kiarolowksi · Kierakouiski · Kiorabkawski · Kiorabkowski · Korobovskoe · Korobowka · Medunichka sladkaya · Peter the Great · Pierre le Grand · Tartnell · Tartnell's
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, wine-like and soft. Picked in mid-August.
Origin · Russia
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- vinous
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- medium-large
Origin & family
Where Korobovka began
Recorded origin
Russia
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- soft
- synonyms
- Cardinal, Karabovka, Karolkowski, Kiarolkowski, Kiarolowksi, Kierakouiski, Kiorabkawski, Kiorabkowski, Korobovskoe, Korobowka, Medunichka sladkaya, Peter the Great, Pierre le Grand, Tartnell, Tartnell's
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos

National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.