Applevariety
Belle de Longue
Also known as Krasavitsa iz Longe +1
Krasavitsa iz Longe · Schoner aus Longue
A cooking apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, flat in shape; soft. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Longue, France
Released 1889
Taste & texture
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- insipid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour brownish orange flushSkin texture greasyBackground colour green-yellow
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- flat, conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 62-66 mmFruit height 51-54 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern some russet
Origin & family
Where Belle de Longue began
Recorded origin
Longue
France
- Released
- 1889
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- insipid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- synonyms
- Krasavitsa iz Longe, Schoner aus Longue
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, conic, convex
- fruit width
- 62-66 mm
- over colour
- brownish orange flush
- russet type
- some russet
- flesh colour
- white
- fruit height
- 51-54 mm
- skin texture
- greasy
- flesh texture
- fine, soft
- ground colour
- green-yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.