Jump to content

Bellflower apple

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Yellow Bellflower)
Malus 'Yellow Bellflower'
Illustration of Yellow Bellflower from 1883
GenusMalus
Cultivar groupYellow Bellflower group
Marketing namesBellflower, Bell Flower, Belle, Bellefleur, Belle Flavoise, Lincoln Pippin, Linnoeus Pippin[1]
Originnear Crosswicks, New Jersey[1]
Two Yellow Bellflower apples from the 1905 Apples of New York

Yellow Bellflower is a cultivar of domesticated apple that originated in New Jersey.[1][2] It has many other names including "Belle Flavoise" and "Lincoln Pippin".[1] It is probably the best known of a group of apple cultivars referred to as the yellow bellflower group, with fruit that are generally elongated, with largely yellow skin.[1] Along with the Yellow Bellflower, the Ortley is the oldest of the group.[1]

Yellow Bellflower

Chemical composition

[edit]

Sugar 11.3%, acid 0.56%, pectine 0.43%[3]

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b c d e f Beach, S.A.; Booth, N.O.; Taylor, O.M. (1905), "Yellow Bellflower", The apples of New York, vol. 1, Albany: J. B. Lyon, pp. 381–383
  2. ^ "Yellow Bellflower", National Fruit Collection, retrieved 28 October 2015
  3. ^ Pomologia Republicii Populare Romine, 1964