Fruit Tree Database

Fruit Type

Apple

Variety/Cultivar

Brabrant Bellefleur

Fruit Description

Bellefleur means "beautiful flower", so this tree will be a beautiful addition to your garden in spring. This variety is mostly known as a cooker, but can be quite eaten fresh as well. Fruit is firm, red striped, crisp, sweet, and aromatic. Stores very well. The apples are often described as ‘knobby’, but are quite lovely to look at, with burgundy coloured stripes over a yellow background..

Common Uses

It can be eaten as a dessert apple (though it has a tendency to be a bit dry), but it comes into its own as a cooking apple. It appears in many traditional Dutch dishes such as apple tarts and hete bliksem - literally “hot lightning,” a dish of mashed potatoes and apples.

Origin

Very old heritage variety from Flanders, late 1700s. others include the Single, Double, French, Drenthe, Red, Batavian, and Oxhead. Won an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society (UK) in 1901. Had disappeared from commercial production in Eur

Pollination

Diploid. Should be pollinised by Dabinett, Democrat, King of the Pippins, Michelin, Peasgood Nonesuch, or some crab apples.

Chill Hours

Not known but probably high.

Blossom Time

Flowers mid to late season

Harvest Time

Very late, April to May

Production Notes

Spur bearer. Trees are moderately vigorous, and spreading.

Disease Susceptibility

Very resistant to black spot (apple scab)

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