Applevariety
Belle de Magny
Also known as Bell de Mani +2
Bell de Mani · Belle de Magni · Krasavitsa iz Mani
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat-round in shape; mildly tart, crisp, firm and rich. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firmtender
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed orange, striped redBackground colour yellow-green
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 59-69 mmFruit height 49-57 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eye and on body, base to apexRusset pattern some russet
Origin & family
Where Belle de Magny began
Recorded origin
France
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye and on body, base to apex
- synonyms
- Bell de Mani, Belle de Magni, Krasavitsa iz Mani
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 59-69 mm
- over colour
- flushed orange, striped red
- russet type
- some russet
- flesh colour
- white
- fruit height
- 49-57 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, tender, crisp
- ground colour
- yellow-green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.