Applevariety
Belle-Fleur de France
Also known as Dobbel Bellefleur +11
Dobbel Bellefleur · Double Belle Fleur · Double Bellefleur · Double Bon Pommier · Double Bonne Ente · Franc Bon Pommier · Franc-Bon-Pommier · Franse Belle Fleur · Franse Bellefleur · French Bellefleur · French Bellflower · Grosse Bonne Ente
A cooking apple with white flesh and yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed dull redRusset Russet presentBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white, tinged green
- Shape
- intermediate to flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 75 mmFruit height 60 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges prominent ribs at eye and base
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, subacid
- ribbing
- prominent ribs at eye and base
- synonyms
- Dobbel Bellefleur, Double Belle Fleur, Double Bellefleur, Double Bon Pommier, Double Bonne Ente, Franc Bon Pommier, Franc-Bon-Pommier, Franse Belle Fleur, Franse Bellefleur, French Bellefleur, French Bellflower, Grosse Bonne Ente
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 75 mm
- over colour
- flushed dull red
- russet type
- present
- flesh colour
- creamy white, tinged green
- fruit height
- 60 mm
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- yellow
- flowering time
- late
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.