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Bouscasse de Bres
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Flat globose 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 58.00mm 2
- Width
- 70.00mm 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Brown 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- mottled 2
- Coarseness
- medium 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1948 - 232
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1948 from France. Fruits have fine, soft flesh with a rather insipid flavour.
- Accession name
- Bouscasse de Bres
- Flowering time ›››
- 16th May10% flowering
20th MayFull (80%) flowering
27th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 1
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
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Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019