Bodil Neergaard
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Discovered in about 1850 by nurseryman Anderson at Flintinge, Lolland, Denmark. Fruits have a sweet, aromatic/vinous flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- vinous, sweet, aromatic
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- tall, rectangular
- Fruit width
- 55 mm
- Over colour
- slight orange flush
- Flesh colour
- yellowish white
- Fruit height
- 68 mm
- Skin texture
- waxy
- Flesh texture
- medium firm, fine
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Conical
- Width
- 67.85 mm
- Crunch
- crumbly
- Height
- 73.53 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Juiciness
- dry
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Pink
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- very low
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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