Applevariety
Bodil Neergaard
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, conical in shape; sweet, aromatic, wine-like and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Flintinge, Lolland, Denmark
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- vinous, sweet, aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour slight orange flushSkin texture waxyBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish white
- Shape
- tall, rectangular
- Size
- mediumFruit width 55 mmFruit height 68 mm
Origin & family
Where Bodil Neergaard began
Recorded origin
Flintinge, Lolland
Denmark
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- vinous, sweet, aromatic
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- tall, rectangular
- fruit width
- 55 mm
- over colour
- slight orange flush
- flesh colour
- yellowish white
- fruit height
- 68 mm
- skin texture
- waxy
- flesh texture
- medium firm, fine
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.