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Bedfordshire Foundling
Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.
Culinary
Measured Phenotype
- Fruit height
- 65.0 mm
- Fruit width
- 75.0 mm
source: NFC
source: NFC
Each value is the highest-precedence :Assertion attached to this cultivar; full provenance (year, evidence type, confidence) is preserved in the graph.
A large, roundish-ovate culinary apple with dark green skin changing to pale greenish-yellow at maturity, sometimes tinged with orange. The flesh is yellowish, tender, pleasantly subacid with sugary flavor. An excellent first-rate cooking apple in use from November to March.
Flavor & Texture
subacidfirmjuicy
Best Uses
cooking
Origin & History
- Status
- commercial
- Origin type
- chance seedling
subacidsugary
References
- UK National Fruit Collection
- 420
- Wikidata
- Q41775403
- Cited authority (Hogg 1851)
- Hort