Rambour Papeleu
syn. Papeleu's Rambour, Rambour Papaleu, Rambour Papele, Rambour Papelin, Rambour Papuleu, Rambour Popelen, Rambour Popelin, Rambourg Papeleu, Rambourg Popelen, Rambourg Popelin
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by N.A. Hartwiss, Director of the Botanic Gardens at Nikita, Crimea, Russia. Introduced in about 1853 to Belgium by Aldolphe Papeleu, nurseryman of Wetteren. Fruits have firm, crisp, fine, creamy white flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 77.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 67.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Weak
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour pattern
- streaked
Source · National Fruit Collection
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