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Bietigheimer
Culinary apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
2000 - 021
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1905 from Bunyard and Veitch. Fruits have crisp, acid flesh. Cooks well.
- Accession name
- Bietigheimer
- Flowering time ›››
- 1st May10% flowering
6th MayFull (80%) flowering
14th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early September 1
- Size
- large-very large 1
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- medium 1
- Crown
- weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- low-medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/washed out 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 1
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019