Biology:Bellflower apple

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Short description: Apple cultivar
Malus 'Yellow Bellflower'
Belle Fleur Jaune.jpg
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

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

See also

  • Bellflower, California, named after the apple
  • Bellflower, Illinois, named after the apple

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Beach, S.A.; Booth, N.O.; Taylor, O.M. (1905), "Yellow Bellflower", The apples of New York, 1, Albany: J. B. Lyon, pp. 381–383, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/56420#page/657/mode/1up 
  2. "Yellow Bellflower", National Fruit Collection, http://www.nationalfruitcollection.org.uk/full2.php?id=6967&&fruit=apple, retrieved 28 October 2015 
  3. Pomologia Republicii Populare Romine, 1964