Pohorka

Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.

Dessert

Introduced

1960

Origin

Yugoslavia

Measured Phenotype

Brix: 12.8 °Bx
Titratable acidity: 3.93 g/L
Juice pH: 3.60

Each value is the highest-precedence :Assertion attached to this cultivar; full provenance (year, evidence type, confidence) is preserved in the graph.

Pohorka is a Yugoslav dessert apple developed in 1960 from a Cox Orange × Ontario cross. The fruit has juicy, aromatic flesh with subacid balance and is suitable for eating fresh from December through June.

Flavor & Texture

aromaticsubacidjuicy

Best Uses

fresh_eating

Lineage

Parents

Cox Orange Pippin Ontario

Origin & History

Origin type: deliberate cross

References

USDA-NPGS: PI 588745
UK National Fruit Collection: 4709
Wikidata: Q2100633