Applevariety
Vlaanderens Roem Rode Boskoop
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; mildly tart and soft. Picked in early October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- sweetish, subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed scarletSkin texture smooth, toughBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- intermediate to flat, truncate-conic, convex, sometimes asymmetric
- Size
- largeFruit width 75-87 mmFruit height 62-73 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern russet dots
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweetish, subacid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, truncate-conic, convex, sometimes asymmetric
- fruit width
- 75-87 mm
- over colour
- flushed scarlet
- russet type
- russet dots
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- fruit height
- 62-73 mm
- skin texture
- smooth, tough
- flesh texture
- soft, fine
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.