Gros Croquet
syn. Bon Pommier, Double Belle Fleur, Double Bellefleur, Double Bon Pommier, Double Bonne Ente, Flandre, Gros Rouge, Gros RTau, Grosse Bonne Ente
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Thought to have originated in the Ardennes, France. It was described in 1947. Fruits have tender, fine flesh with a sweet, subacid and perfumed flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 15th May (10%) · 21st May (full) · 27th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid, perfumed
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- variable, sometimes flat, sometimes tall, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 70-86 mm
- Over colour
- flushed red with darker streaks
- Russet type
- russet marking
- Flesh colour
- yellowish white, veined green
- Fruit height
- 60-66 mm
- Skin texture
- thin, tender, sticky
- Flesh texture
- tender, fine
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 81.81 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 67.02 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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