Rose de Benauge
syn. Bonne de Mai, Cadillac, Codillac, de Cadillac, Dieu, Dieudonne, Pomme de Cadillac, Pomme de Codellac, Pomme de Codillac, Rose (de Knoop), Rose d ' Hollande, Rose d' Holland, Rose de Dropt, Rose de Holland, Rose de Hollande, Rose de la Benauge, Rose de Mai, Rose du Dropt, Rose Tendre, Rosenapfel aus Benauge, Rozovka iz Benozha
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Thought to have originated in the Bordeaux district of France. Recorded in 1872. Fruits have firm, fairly tender, yellowish white flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
- Flowering
- 17th May (10%) · 22nd May (full) · 29th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic to conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 62 mm
- Over colour
- flushed with bright red
- Flesh colour
- yellowish white
- Fruit height
- 47 mm
- Flesh texture
- firm, fairly tender
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- low
- Over colour pattern
- striped/washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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