President Boudewijn
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1935 at the Horticultural Laboratory, Wageningen, The Netherlands. It was introduced in 1952. Fruits have greenish white flesh with a subacid, sweet, aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 9th May (10%) · 14th May (full) · 21st May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid, sweet, aromatic
- Ribbing
- very slightly ribbed at eye
- Fruit size
- very variable
- Fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 60-73 mm
- Over colour
- striped orange-red
- Russet type
- russet netting and patches
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Fruit height
- 43-54 mm
- Skin texture
- rough
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Flat
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- soft
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Greasiness
- Weak
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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