Bietigheimer
- From
- Germany
- Description
- It is a fine fruit for exhibition but is not worthy of cultivation for either home use or market.
- Flesh quality
- firm, very coarse, crisp, somewhat tough, juicy, subacid, fair to nearly good.
- Flesh color
- white
- Skin quality
- thick, tough, smooth
- Skin color
- pink-red blushed, green, yellow, white
- Sizes
- very large
- Shape
- round, irregular, oblate, uniform, conical
- General quality
- Fruit remarkable only for its great size and beauty.
- Uses
- culinary, decorative
- Eating season starts in
- September
- Eating season ends in
- October
- Also known as
- Beitigheimer
- Red Beitigheimer
- Red Bietigheimer
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 18.