Bonnet de Comte
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Truncate conical 2
- Size
- small-medium 2
- Height
- 47.00mm 2
- Width
- 51.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Greasiness
- Medium 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
1947 - 283
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1947 from France. Fruits have firm flesh with a subacid to acid flavour.
- Accession name
- Bonnet de Comte
- Flowering time tree 1 ›››
- 11th May10% flowering
16th MayFull (80%) flowering 23rd May90% petal fall
- Picking time tree 1
- Late October 1
- Size tree 2
- small 1
- Shape tree 2
- Globose 1
- Height tree 2
- 48.18 mm 1
- Width tree 2
- 54.37 mm 1
- Ribbing tree 2
- weak-medium 1
- Crown tree 2
- medium 1
- Ground Colour tree 2
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour tree 2
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Pattern tree 2
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet tree 2
- very low 1

- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
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