Applevariety
Gros-Hopital
Also known as Bailleuil +6
Bailleuil · Bailleul · de Cure · Gros Hopital · Gros Hospital · Reinette d'Hopital · Reinette de Bailleul
A cooking apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and crisp. Picked in late October.
Origin · Seine-Inferieure (Maritime), France
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- medium-firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern streaked/mottled
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- large
Origin & family
Where Gros-Hopital began
Recorded origin
Seine-Inferieure (Maritime)
France
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Truncate conical
- crunch
- crisp
- russet
- very low
- firmness
- medium-firm
- synonyms
- Bailleuil, Bailleul, de Cure, Gros Hopital, Gros Hospital, Reinette d'Hopital, Reinette de Bailleul
- coarseness
- medium
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked/mottled
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.