Red Belle de Boskoop
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Triploid. A more highly coloured sport of Belle de Boskoop. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1950 from Denmark. Fruits have firm, coarse-textured flesh with a pleasant aromatic flavour. Cooks well.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 2nd May (10%) · 8th May (full) · 15th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Crown
- very weak
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour pattern
- solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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