Nicer from Boskoop

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Nicer from Boskoop
Synonyms More beautiful from Boskoop, Boskop, Boskoop, Renette von Montfort, Roter Boskoop
Malus Boskoop 4581.jpg
Art Cultivated apple ( Malus domestica )
group Renetten
origin Netherlands
known since 1856
breeder Kornelis Johannes Wilhelm Ottolander
Launch 1863
ancestry

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The Beautiful from Boskoop , the Germans usually short Boskop is one of the rennet apples scoring varieties of Culture apple and winter apples Act. His original name was Renette von Montfort . In Austria and Bavaria it is counted among the leather apples .

description

The large apples, which often weigh over 200 g, ripen at the end of September to mid-October and can be kept until March. They have a sour taste, the high acid content conceals the high sugar content.

The tree has a very strong, spreading crown. It prefers a location on heavy, moist and calcareous soil and is then long-lived. The variety has proven to be very robust against fire blight.

Cultivation

The variety is susceptible to core rot and meat browning , but only very slightly susceptible to scab .

Since the Boskoop is a triploid variety, it is not suitable for fertilization for other apple trees.

origin

The beautiful from Boskoop was discovered in 1856 as a chance seedling by the pomologist Kornelis Johannes Wilhelm Ottolander as a fruiting shoot of a wildling in Boskoop , Netherlands . It has been a widely used standard variety since 1863.

In 1923 a bud mutation was discovered in the Rhineland by the fruit tree grower Otto Schmitz-Hübsch , which has since been known as the Roter Boskoop . Apart from the color, this has the same properties as the original shape.

use

The apple can be used in many ways. Due to the high acid content, the Boskoop is well suited for the preparation of applesauce or apple pancakes as well as baking or roasting apples ; for lovers of acidic apples, it is an excellent dessert fruit. The Boskoop is also used for the production of juices, cider and fruit brandies .

For some apple allergy sufferers , this old apple variety is edible due to its low allergen content.

photos

  • Fruit of the Boskoop

  • Cores of the Boskoop

  • Blossom of the Boskoop

  • Red boskoop on the tree

literature

Web links

Commons : Beautiful from Boskoop  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Index card of the variety in the BUND-Lemgo fruit variety database
  • Description from advisors for fruit growing, gardening and landscape Baden-Württemberg eV

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Recommended notation according to Duden [1]
  2. ↑ a b Stefanie Mayer: Schöner von / aus Boskoop ( Memento from September 25, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Karlsruhe University of Education , Ecological Teaching Garden.
  3. ^ Franco Weibel and Andreas Häseli: Organic Apple Production in: DC Ferree and IJ Warrington (eds.): Apples. Botany, Production and Uses. CABI Publishing 2003, ISBN 0-85199-592-6 . P. 561
  4. ^ Association for the Environment and Nature Conservation - Local group Lemgo: Apple allergy .