Description
- Harvest: Late
- Description: Semi-spur bearer, knobby fruit. Skin has burgundy stripes over a yellow background. Flesh is white
- Taste: Moderately juicy, more acidic than sweet
- Storage: Good keeper
- Uses: Eating, cooking. Traditional Dutch dishes that make use of this variety include apple tarts and hete bliksem (literally “hot lightning,” a dish of mashed potatoes and apples)
- Background: Today the Bellefleur is only cultivated in historical gardens and hobby orchards in the province of Brabant in the southern Netherlands