Pepin d'Or de Bovelingen
syn. Pepin d'Or de Bowerlingen
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Thought to have originated in Belgium. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1947. Fruits have fine, crisp, greenish white flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye, prominent ribs on body
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- flat to tall, asymmetric, conic to truncate-conic, convex to sometimes straight
- Fruit width
- 75-98 mm
- Over colour
- flushed bright red
- Russet type
- a little russet
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Fruit height
- 54-77 mm
- Skin texture
- greasy
- Flesh texture
- fine, crisp
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- strong
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- low
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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