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Bellaqueeny
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1948 - 743
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1948. Fruits have soft flesh with an acid flavour.
- Accession name
- Bellaqueeny
- Flowering time ›››
- 4th May10% flowering
9th MayFull (80%) flowering
17th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid August 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Truncate conical 1
- Ribbing
- strong 1
- Crown
- medium-strong 1
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- low-medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- absent 1
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 1
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019