Our Variety Assessment

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

Belle Fleur Double is a traditional standard-orchard apple from northern France and Belgium. Its large sweet-sharp fruit is particularly useful for juice, sauces, pies and apple paste. The tree is vigorous and flowers late. As a triploid with poor pollen, it requires two compatible pollinating varieties. Heavy, wet soils should be avoided because they can increase susceptibility to canker.

Belle Fleur Double

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

Belle Fleur Double apple tree, with large sweet, slightly sharp apples for juice, cooking and fresh eating, harvested in October.

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Dispatch generally takes place from late November to February, depending on the weather and the progress of lifting the trees.

Choose your tree form

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: 13555 Categories: Apple trees, Eating apple trees

Description

Belle Fleur Double apple tree produces large apples with a sweet, slightly sharp flavour. The taste is pleasant, and the fruit is well suited to several uses.

These apples are excellent for juice and culinary use, while also being suitable for fresh eating. Belle Fleur Double is also a very good variety for making apple paste.

The fruit is picked in October and can be eaten until early January.

Belle Fleur Double is not very sensitive to disease.

Flowering is late. It can be pollinated by Baguette Violette, Marie Doudou, Quarantaine d’Hiver, or any other good pollinating apple variety flowering at the same time.

Belle Fleur Double is also known as Belle Fleur de France. It is a very old variety, typical from Picardy through to Belgium.

This variety is fairly similar to Double Bon Pommier Rouge.

We produce this grafted apple tree on several rootstocks, which influence the final size of the mature tree. It is available in several tree forms depending on availability.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Very old peasant variety from France, Belgium or Holland, probably from a seedling of Belle-Fleur de Brabant.

Origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Harvest period

Eating / keeping period

4 month

Use

Cooking, Fresh eating, Juice

Sweetness / acidity

Disease resistance

Self-fertility

Pollinator value

Ploidy

Origin and identity

Parentage

Probable seedling of Belle-Fleur de Brabant

Synonyms

Belle-Fleur de France, Franse Belle Fleur, Double Bon Pommier, Double Bonne Ente, Double Conente

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Fairly vigorous, broad habit, slow to come into bearing, biennial production, typical high-stem variety

Disease behaviour

Scab

Moderate to low susceptibility

Powdery mildew

Moderately susceptible

Canker

Can be susceptible in heavy, damp soils

Pollination

Compatible pollinating varieties

For reliable fruit set, plant at least one variety with a compatible flowering period nearby. Flowering period: 5 - very late.

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