Applevariety
Bebe Rose
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firmtender
- Flavour
- somewhat sweet to subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour up to half flushed, striped and splashed redSkin texture greasyBackground colour pale greenish yellow
- Flesh
- whitish
- Shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 61-64 mmFruit height 49-52 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges prominent ribs at apex and on body
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- somewhat sweet to subacid
- ribbing
- prominent ribs at apex and on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 61-64 mm
- over colour
- up to half flushed, striped and splashed red
- flesh colour
- whitish
- fruit height
- 49-52 mm
- skin texture
- greasy
- flesh texture
- firm, tender, fine
- ground colour
- pale greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.