Bietigheimer
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Introduced to Canada from Germany 1870 approx. From Germany. Obsolete variety.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 1st May (10%) · 6th May (full) · 14th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- acid
- Ribbing
- broad ribs at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate to flat or tall, truncate-conic, convex, asymmetric
- Fruit width
- 79-99 mm
- Over colour
- almost entirely covered with bright pinkish red to deep red flush
- Russet type
- russet dots
- Flesh colour
- creamy white
- Fruit height
- 72-81 mm
- Flesh texture
- fine, hard, crisp
- Ground colour
- pale greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Culinary
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- firm-very firm
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- low-medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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