Belle de France
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1982 from Switzerland. Very late flowering variety.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 20th May (10%) · 23rd May (full) · 1st June (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Culinary
- Crown
- absent
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Width
- 64.13 mm
- Height
- 52.48 mm
- Russet
- absent
- Ribbing
- very weak
- Firmness
- soft
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Greenish
- Ground colour
- Whitish green
- Over colour amount
- low
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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