Culinary / Dessert apple
A dark red sport of Belle de Boskoop. Fruits have firm, coarse-textured, sweet and acid flesh with an aromatic flavour.
Availability Material in the National Fruit Collection not currently available.
Accession name Botden
Flowering time 24th April 10% flowering 26th April Full (80%) flowering10th May 90% petal fall
Picking time Early October 1
Size large 1
Type Culinary / Dessert 1
References: 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale. 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register