Applevariety
President Boudewijn
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and green-yellow skin, flat in shape, raised in 1935 and introduced in 1952; sweet, mildly tart and aromatic. Picked in early October.
Origin · Horticultural Laboratory, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Released 1952
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Flavour
- subacid, sweet, aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour striped orange-redSkin texture roughBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- very variableFruit width 60-73 mmFruit height 43-54 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges very slightly ribbed at eyeRusset pattern russet netting and patches
Origin & family
Where President Boudewijn began
Recorded origin
Horticultural Laboratory, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Netherlands
- Released
- 1952
President Boudewijn’s family
5 varieties · 4 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
President Boudewijn
Horticultural Laboratory, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, sweet, aromatic
- ribbing
- very slightly ribbed at eye
- parentage
- Jonathan x Cox's Orange Pippin
- fruit size
- very variable
- fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 60-73 mm
- over colour
- striped orange-red
- russet type
- russet netting and patches
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 43-54 mm
- skin texture
- rough
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.