Zhigulevskoe
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Duchess of Oldenburg x Wagenar Prizovoe
Accession No.
1976 - 108
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1976 from Pavlovsk Experiment Station, Vavilov Institute, St Petersburg, Russia. Fruits have soft, juicy flesh.
- Accession name
- Zhigulevskoe
- Flowering time ›››
- 27th April10% flowering
4th MayFull (80%) flowering 15th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Late September 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Height
- 66.64 mm 1
- Width
- 78.95 mm 1
- Ribbing
- medium 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Greasiness
- Medium 1
- Crunch
- crumbly 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 1
- Juiciness
- dry-medium 1
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 1

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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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