Search Options
Copyright Information
You may use and re-use the information featured on this website (not including logos) free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government Licence.
Bukhovitsa
Culinary apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1957 - 075
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1957 from Bulgaria. Fruits have crisp flesh with a very acid flavour.
- Accession name
- Bukhovitsa
- Flowering time ›››
- 5th May10% flowering
9th MayFull (80%) flowering
15th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- solid flush 1
- Russet
- absent 1
- Greasiness
- Strong 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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