The World of Apples

Apple varieties, North Macedonia

Kitchovka

The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:

Recorded in Bulgaria 1886. From Presumed to have been introduced to Bulgaria from Kichevo in Macedonia, Macedonia (probably).

Kitchovka
Where Kitchovka came from.

Sources

  1. Kitchovka (accession 1957 - 078), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (mid october).
  2. Using whole-genome SNP data to reconstruct a large multi-generation pedigree in apple germplasm, Hélène Muranty and others, BMC Plant Biology 20:2, 2020. Supports: its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).