Rhode Island Greening
Also known as Bell Dubois +26
Bell Dubois · Burlington Greening · Ganges · Green Newtown Pippin · Green Winter Pippin · Greening · Greenling von Rhode Island · Grunling von Rhode Island · Grunling von Rhode-Island · Hampshire Greening · Island's Grunling · Jersey Greening · Lindley Green Newton Pippin · Pomme Verte de Rhode-Island · Reinette du Seeland · Rhode Island · Rhode Island (Greening) · Rhode-Island Greening · Russine · Seelander Reinette · Serinkia · Verte de Ile de Rhodes · Verte de l'Ile de Rhodes · Verte de Rhode Island · Verte de Rhode-Island · Zelence Rhodoislandske · Zelenka Rod-Ailend skaya
A cooking and dessert apple with yellowish flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat-round in shape; tart, juicy and firm. Picked in early October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- acid
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour occasional orange flushSkin texture greasyBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- greenish yellow
- Shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 67-78 mmFruit height 54-66 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern russet at base, pale dots
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- acid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- synonyms
- Bell Dubois, Burlington Greening, Ganges, Green Newtown Pippin, Green Winter Pippin, Greening, Greenling von Rhode Island, Grunling von Rhode Island, Grunling von Rhode-Island, Hampshire Greening, Island's Grunling, Jersey Greening, Lindley Green Newton Pippin, Pomme Verte de Rhode-Island, Reinette du Seeland, Rhode Island, Rhode Island (Greening), Rhode-Island Greening, Russine, Seelander Reinette, Serinkia, Verte de Ile de Rhodes, Verte de l'Ile de Rhodes, Verte de Rhode Island, Verte de Rhode-Island, Zelence Rhodoislandske, Zelenka Rod-Ailend skaya
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 67-78 mm
- over colour
- occasional orange flush
- russet type
- russet at base, pale dots
- flesh colour
- greenish yellow
- fruit height
- 54-66 mm
- skin texture
- greasy
- flesh texture
- firm, fine
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.