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Belvedere House
type: Cooking, Culinary, Pollinization, Sauce
identification: Conical, deep red skin. Shape and colour similar to, though about half the size of a Red Delicious apple.
characteristics: Red flesh.
uses: A cooking apple which makes a red, rather tart sauce.
origins: Found as a chance seedling in the orchard at Belvedere House in Mullingar, County Westmeath.
cultivation: Ripens mid-season. Tip bearer.
harvest: mid season
pollination peak: 1
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
flowers: pink blossoms
foliage: veined purple
leaves: pale
fruit: red fleshed
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