Applevariety
Belle de Pontoise
Also known as Belle Pontoise +7
Belle Pontoise · Frumos de Pontoise · Pontoiske · Pontuazskaia krasavita · Pontuazskaya krasavitsa · Schoener von Pontoise · Schoner aus Pontoise · Schoner von Pontoise
A cooking and dessert apple with white flesh and yellow skin, flat in shape; mildly tart, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Pontoise
Released 1879
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firmtender
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed orange, striped redBackground colour yellow-green
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 75-80 mmFruit height 55 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eye and on body, base to apexRusset pattern some russet
Origin & family
Where Belle de Pontoise began
Recorded origin
Pontoise
France
- Released
- 1879
Belle de Pontoise’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Belle de Pontoise
Pontoise, France
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Alexander → Belle de PontoiseParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye and on body, base to apex
- synonyms
- Belle Pontoise, Frumos de Pontoise, Pontoiske, Pontuazskaia krasavita, Pontuazskaya krasavitsa, Schoener von Pontoise, Schoner aus Pontoise, Schoner von Pontoise
- parentage
- Alexander x Unknown
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 75-80 mm
- over colour
- flushed orange, striped red
- russet type
- some russet
- flesh colour
- white
- fruit height
- 55 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.