Bloody Ploughman
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated at Carse of Gowrie, Scotland. Recorded in 1883. Fruits have crisp, tender flesh with a slightly sweet, subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 8th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 19th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- slightly sweet, subacid
- Ribbing
- strongly ribbed base to apex, up to 10 very prominent ribs at eye
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, sometimes tall, conic to truncate-conic
- Fruit width
- 66-74 mm
- Over colour
- almost entirely flushed bright red to deep purplish red
- Russet type
- pale dots, rough russet radiating from cavity over base
- Flesh colour
- greenish white, tinged red
- Fruit height
- 55-65 mm
- Flesh texture
- crisp
- Ground colour
- yellowish green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- very strong
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 77.83 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 66.23 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- very strong
- Juiciness
- dry
- Greasiness
- Strong
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- high
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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