Bess Pool
Also known as Bess Poole +15
Bess Poole · Best Pool · Black Blenheim · Muskerte Gelbe Reinette · Muskierte Gelbe Reinette · Muskirke Gelbe Reinette · Muskirte Gelbe Reinette · Old Bess Pool · Old Best Pool · Red Rice · Ronald's Besspool · Stadlerope Pippin · Stadway Pippin · Stradbroke Pippin · Stradbrooke Pippin · Walsgrove Blenheim
A dessert apple, flat round in shape, yellow skin, yellowish flesh. Picked in early-October. First recorded in 1824. Sweet, firm and dry.
Origin · Nottinghamshire
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm-very firm
- Juiciness
- dry
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Yellow
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Size
- mediumWidth 70.00 mmHeight 63.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Bess Pool began
Recorded origin
Nottinghamshire
Bess Pool’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
Bess Pool
Nottinghamshire
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Bess Pool → New Bess PoolParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat globose
- width
- 70.00 mm
- height
- 63.00 mm
- firmness
- firm-very firm
- synonyms
- Bess Poole, Best Pool, Black Blenheim, Muskerte Gelbe Reinette, Muskierte Gelbe Reinette, Muskirke Gelbe Reinette, Muskirte Gelbe Reinette, Old Bess Pool, Old Best Pool, Red Rice, Ronald's Besspool, Stadlerope Pippin, Stadway Pippin, Stradbroke Pippin, Stradbrooke Pippin, Walsgrove Blenheim
- juiciness
- dry
- mother to
- New Bess Pool
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.