Belle de Boskoop

'Belle de Boskoop'
Hybrid parentageChance seedling
Cultivar‘Belle de Boskoop’ or 'Schone van Boskoop'
OriginBoskoop, Netherlands, 1856

Belle de Boskoop (also called Goudrenet, Goudreinet or Goudreinnette) is an apple cultivar which originated in Boskoop, Netherlands, where it began as a chance seedling in 1856. Variants include Boskoop red, yellow and green. This rustic apple is firm, tart and fragrant. Greenish-gray tinged with red, the apple stands up well to cooking. Generally Boskoop varieties are very high in acid content and they can contain over four times the vitamin C of Granny Smith or Golden Delicious.[1]

The apple grows well in Normandy, France.[2]

  • 'Belle de Boskoop' apple flowers
    'Belle de Boskoop' apple flowers
  • Blossoming 'Belle de Boskoop' apple tree
    Blossoming 'Belle de Boskoop' apple tree
  • Ripe 'Red Boskoop' on a branch
    Ripe 'Red Boskoop' on a branch
  1. ^ Violeta Nour; Ion Trandafir & Mira Elena Ionica (2010), "Compositional characteristics of fruits of several apple (Malus domestica Borkh.) cultivars", Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca, 38 (3): 228–233
  2. ^ "Pomme de Normandie". Patrimoine Normand. Retrieved 28 September 2015.