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Red Belle de Boskoop
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
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.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Sport of Belle de Boskoop
Accession No.
1974 - 500
- Accession name
- Red Belle de Boskoop
- Flowering time ›››
- 2nd May10% flowering
8th MayFull (80%) flowering
15th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early October 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- very weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- solid flush 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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