Biology:Bellflower apple

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Short description: Apple cultivar
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

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