Fruit Tree Database

Fruit Type

Apple

Variety/Cultivar

Boskoop Rouge (Belle de Boskoop, Gold Reinette)

Fruit Description

Medium-large, yellow, flushed and russeted. Flesh is crisp and the apples keep well.

Common Uses

Dual purpose eating and cooking. Cooks fluffily golden yellow.

Origin

Netherlands, 1856.

Pollination

Triploid, which means it cannot act as a pollen donor, and therefore needs to be planted with two other apples which can pollinate each other as well as well as pollinating the Belle de Boskoop. Should be planted with other early flowering varieties such as Abas, Beauty of Bath, Irish Peach, Lord Lambourne, McIntosh, Red Braeburn, Tydeman's Early Winesap, Vista Bella, Yarlington Mill, Geeveston Fanny, Lord Nelson, Lord Suffield, Tropical Beauty.

Chill Hours

Blossom Time

Early to mid-season.

Harvest Time

Mid to late.

Production Notes

Spur bearer. Tree is large, upright and spreading. Much sought after by people of European background.

Disease Susceptibility

Very resistant to black spot (apple scab)

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