Our Variety Assessment

Its strengths, growing requirements and the conditions in which it performs best.

Belle de Boskoop remains a benchmark for growers seeking large apples with a powerful, sharp flavour. It is excellent for pies, sauces, baking and juice, and becomes more suitable for fresh eating after storage. The vigorous tree performs well across temperate Europe. As a triploid and poor pollinator, it should be planted with two compatible flowering varieties nearby.

Belle de Boskoop

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

Belle de Boskoop is a popular large dual-purpose apple from the Netherlands.

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1 year old grafted tree – approx. 1–2 m

Half-standard – 1 to 1.5 m stem

Low-stem tree – approx. 60 cm stem

Standard tree – 1.8 m stem and over

Apple rootstock options

Bittenfelder – approx. 6 m mature height

EM9 – approx. 2.5 m mature height

M116 – approx. 4 m mature height

MM111 – approx. 4 m mature height

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SKU: 4305 Categories: Apple trees, Eating apple trees

Description

Belle de Boskoop is a well-regarded 19th century apple, from the town of Boskoop in the Netherlands, and still grown commercially on a small scale in Europe.

It is a classic long-storing dual-purpose apple, versatile in the kitchen, and good for eating fresh if you like a sharper apple.

The relatively large apples are variable in colour, usually green with orange or red flushes and some russeting. The pink and white spring blossom is pretty.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Chance seedling discovered in 1856 at Boskoop, in the Netherlands, in the Ottolander nursery.

Origin

Period of origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Harvest period

Eating / keeping period

Use

Sweetness / acidity

Disease resistance

Origin and identity

Parentage

Chance seedling, parentage unknown

Synonyms

Schone van Boskoop, Goudrenette, Goudreinette, Beauty of Boskoop, Boskoop, Reinette de Montfort

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Very vigorous, very wide and well-branched canopy, triploid, poor pollinator, generous production but marked biennial bearing

Disease behaviour

Scab

Low to moderately susceptible

Powdery mildew

Low susceptibility

Canker

Low susceptibility

Pollination

Compatible pollinating varieties

These varieties flower at a compatible time and are the most relevant matches in the catalogue. Flowering period: 2 - early.

Roberts Crab View this variety Bardsey View this variety

Peasgood’s Nonsuch View this variety

Verdun d’Hiver View this variety Blenheim Orange View this variety Bramley’s Seedling View this variety

Harvest calendar

Extend your harvest season

Discover varieties from the same category harvested just before, at the same time or just after.

At the same time

September 15-30

Bardsey View this variety

Peasgood’s Nonsuch View this variety

Belle Fleur Rouge View this variety

Additional variety information for Belle de Boskoop is provided in partnership with Orange Pippin.