Boiken
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in Bremen, Germany and named after Dikewarden Boike. Known since 1828. Fruits have firm, fine-textured, juicy, acid flesh with very little flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Beuken, Birken, Birkin, Boiken Apfel, Boiken-alma, Boiken-Apfel, Boikenapfel, Boikenapple, Boikovo, Boikovo jablko, Bojkovo, Bolken, Jablko Boikovo, Pomme Boiken, Zlotka Boikena
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Flat 2
- Size
- large 2
- Height
- 62.50mm 2
- Width
- 76.50mm 2
- Ribbing
- strong 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Greasiness
- Medium 2
- Coarseness
- coarse 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1927 - 021
- Accession name
- Boiken
- Flowering time ›››
- 9th May10% flowering
14th MayFull (80%) flowering 21st May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Late October 1

- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
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