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Apple
Bonza 
Apple
Nittany 
Apple
Galloway Pippin 
Apple
Bolero 
Apple
Braeburn 
SummaryA chance seedling discovered in Australia.
Crisp, juicy yellow flesh tart apple, 3 to 3.25 inches in diameter. About 50 to 90% of the surface is covered with a dull red color. Shape is truncate to conical. Good eaten fresh but also good choice for a cooking apple as it holds its shape when cooked.
A good quality Scottish cooking apple.
One of the 'Ballerina' style apple varieties, developed from a McIntosh sport called Wijcik which grows in a naturally columnar style with no side-branches.
Braeburn was the first of the new wave of bi-colored supermarket apple varieties, and re-established the importance of flavor in commercial apples.

Identification

Bonza
Nittany
Galloway Pippin
Bolero
Braeburn
Fruit colourRed / Green




Flesh colour



White to Cream, pale yellow
Fruit size



Medium
Fruit shape



Conical

Using

Bonza
Nittany
Galloway Pippin
Bolero
Braeburn
Flavor

Very good

Very good
Flavour styleSweeter



Sharper
Ripening periodMid season

Mid-Late season
Very early season

Use/Keeping1-2 months
1-2 months
1-2 months

3 months or more
Cooking resultKeeps shape

Keeps shape


Growing

Bonza
Nittany
Galloway Pippin
Bolero
Braeburn
Picking




Cropping




VigourAverage growth


Weak growing
Average growth
PollinationFlowering group 3
Flowers Mid season
Flowering group 4
Flowers Mid-Late season
Self-sterile
Flowering group 0
Flowers Very early season
Self-sterile
Flowering group 4
Self-fertile
Gardening skill

Very easy
Average
Average
ProblemsScab - Some resistance
Mildew - Some susceptibility
Woolly aphid - Some resistance
Scab - Some susceptibility
Mildew - Some susceptibility
Fireblight - Some susceptibility
Woolly aphid - Some susceptibility
Cedar apple rust - Very susceptible

Other

Bonza
Nittany
Galloway Pippin
Bolero
Braeburn
Country of originAustralia
United States
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
New Zealand
Other qualitiesAwards