Belle de Boskoop
syn. Apfel der Zukunft, Bella di Boskoop, Belle de Boscoop, Belle of Boskoop, Boschovo jablko, Boskoop, Boskoopi szep, Boskoopskaya krasavitsa, Boskoopske, Boskoopské rudé, Boskopska hubavita, Boskopskaia krasavita, Boskopskaya krasavitsa, Calvill von Boskoop, Calville de Boskoop, Frumos de Boskoop, Gold Reinette, Goudrenet, Monstrous Reinette, Piekna z Boskoop, Piekna z Boskop, Reinette Belle de Boskoop, Reinette Belle di Boskoop, Reinette de Boskoop, Reinette de Montfoort, Reinette de Montfort, Reinette Monstreuse, Reinette Monstrous, Reinette Monstrueuse, Reinette von Montfort, Renetta di Montfort, Schone van Boskoop, Schone von Boskoop, Schoner aus Boskoop, Schoner van Boskoop, Schoner von Boskoop, Schoone van Boskoop, Schoone von Boskoop
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Triploid. Thought to be a bud sport of Reinette de Montfort. Found by K.J.W. Ottolander, Boskoop, The Netherlands in 1856. Received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1897. Fruits have firm, coarse textured flesh with a pleasant, aromatic flavour. Also cooks well.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 2nd May (10%) · 8th May (full) · 15th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- acid aromatic
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 70 mm
- Over colour
- flushed red
- Russet type
- present
- Flesh colour
- yellow
- Fruit height
- 60 mm
- Flesh texture
- firm
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Crown
- very weak
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 73.89 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 61.00 mm
- Russet
- medium-high
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- low
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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