Bushey Grove
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1897 by Mrs Good, Bushey Grove, Hertfordshire and introduced in about 1926 by G.W. King, Sidcup, Kent. It received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1922. This variety is very prone to apple scab. Fruits have very soft, coarse-textured, juicy flesh which is rather acid. Cooks well.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 2nd May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 16th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Culinary
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 74.00 mm
- Height
- 60.00 mm
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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