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Green Butskaya is a Russian apple listed as number 382 in N.E. Hansen's 1902 bulletin A Study of Northwestern Apples [S1]. The source gives no breeder, nursery, parentage, or release date. Its main identifying feature is greenish yellow skin heavily covered with dark crimson stripes and splashes. The whole fruit has a thick blue bloom [S1].
The fruit is medium or smaller, round to oblate, and slightly angular and ribbed [S1]. Hansen records white, juicy flesh, but rates the flavor poor because it is too acid [S1]. The season is early August. A separate list page groups Green Butskaya with summer and early fall apples [S1].
The tree was very productive [S1]. The packet gives no details on vigor, bearing habit, disease behavior, pruning needs, storage, or culinary use. From this source alone, its practical value appears limited because the fruit was judged too acid and poor in quality [S1].
Hardiness is not directly stated. The cultivar appears in a northern plains apple evaluation bulletin and is identified as Russian, but no zone rating or winter survival statement is given [S1].
Taxonomically, Green Butskaya is treated as an apple cultivar in a Malus cultivar list [S1]. The available packet documents no parentage, sibling relationship, or later breeding use.
Summary source basis
This summary currently draws chiefly from A Study of Northwestern Apples.
Featured source descriptions
“Fruit round, oblate, slightly angular and ribbed; cavity acute and regular; stem short; basin ribbed and wavy, rather wide and abrupt; calyx closed.”
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“Green Butskaya is associated with heavy blue bloom on the surface.”
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“Core open or closed; tube wide, funnel-shaped; stamens marginal.”
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“Fruit too acid; flesh white, juicy, acid, poor.”
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| 14 | A Study of Northwestern Apples | unknown | 1 | 0 | 0 | p143 | Green Butskaya is associated with heavy blue bloom on the surface. |
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| 14 | p143 | description_snippet | Green Butskaya is associated with heavy blue bloom on the surface. | Season summer and early fall; Surface with heavy blue bloom ... Green Butskaya | page_block:0.90 |
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