Belle-Fleur de France
syn. Dobbel Bellefleur, Double Belle Fleur, Double Bellefleur, Double Bon Pommier, Double Bonne Ente, Franc Bon Pommier, Franc-Bon-Pommier, Franse Belle Fleur, Franse Bellefleur, French Bellefleur, French Bellflower, Grosse Bonne Ente
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Thought to be of French origin. Recorded in 1954. Fruits have firm, creamy white, tinged green flesh with a sweet, subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Ribbing
- prominent ribs at eye and base
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 75 mm
- Over colour
- flushed dull red
- Russet type
- present
- Flesh colour
- creamy white, tinged green
- Fruit height
- 60 mm
- Flesh texture
- firm
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Ribbing
- strong
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour pattern
- solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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