Tree Details | |
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Grid Ref | J2 |
Tree Type | Apple |
Variety | Coeur de Boeuf |
Rootstock | M25 |
Date Planted | 23 January 2011 |
Tree Description | A large flat round apple, red flush over a green skin. Cooks to a sweet, lemon coloured puree. Keeps well. Vigorous, spreading tree. |
Comments | Suggested by RP & CS. A very old French variety possibly the same as the 13th. century De Rouviau. Grafted in situ. |
Orchard Map |
He struck me as looking like a pear on top of two toothpicks.
(Dean Gooderham Acheson, of Charles de Gaulle, 22 Oct 1980)