Rambour Papeleu

Rambour Papeleu, painted by Amanda Almira Newton in 1907 for the US Department of Agriculture. Amanda Almira Newton. U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705. Source; public domain.

Origin: Nikita, Crimea, Ukraine, by about 1853
Raised by: N.A. Hartwiss
Parentage: Parents unknown
Uses: Dessert, Cooking
Picked: October, in Brogdale, Kent (the National Fruit Collection)
Skin: Large, truncate conical fruit; ground colour whitish yellow; over-colour orange, streaked
Flesh: Cream; firm, fine
Flavour: Sweet subacid
Also called: Papeleu's Rambour; Rambour Papaleu; Rambour Papele; Rambour Papelin; Rambour Papuleu; Rambour Popelen; Rambour Popelin; Rambourg Papeleu; Rambourg Popelen; Rambourg Popelin

The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it¹:

Raised by N.A. Hartwiss, Director of the Botanic Gardens at Nikita, Crimea, Russia. Introduced in about 1853 to Belgium by Aldolphe Papeleu, nurseryman of Wetteren. Fruits have firm, crisp, fine, creamy white flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.

Sources

Rambour Papeleu (accession 2000 - 080), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (mid october); the other names.

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