Applevariety
Pepin d'Or de Bovelingen
Also known as Pepin d'Or de Bowerlingen
Pepin d'Or de Bowerlingen
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; mildly tart and crisp. Picked in early October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed bright redSkin texture greasyBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- flat to tall, asymmetric, conic to truncate-conic, convex to sometimes straight
- Size
- largeFruit width 75-98 mmFruit height 54-77 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye, prominent ribs on bodyRusset pattern a little russet
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye, prominent ribs on body
- synonyms
- Pepin d'Or de Bowerlingen
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat to tall, asymmetric, conic to truncate-conic, convex to sometimes straight
- fruit width
- 75-98 mm
- over colour
- flushed bright red
- russet type
- a little russet
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 54-77 mm
- skin texture
- greasy
- flesh texture
- fine, crisp
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.