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Bountiful apple

An easy-to-grow cooking apple, retains shape when cooked, fairly sweet for a cooker. Unusually for a cooking apple, it is quite modern - introduced by East Malling Research Station in the 1960s.

Bountiful photo tape
Last updated 26 Aug 2010.

Summary

  • Species: Malus domestica
  • Parentage: Cox, poss Lanes Prince Albert
  • Origin: England, United Kingdom
  • Introduced: 1964
  • Orange Pippin Cultivar ID: 109800
  • Some historical details taken with kind permission from 'The New Book of Apples' by Joan Morgan and Alison Richards , illustrated by Elisabeth Dowle, published by Ebury Press, 2002.

Using

  • Good for cooking
  • Cooking result: Keeps shape
  • Flavour style: Sweeter
  • Ripening period: Mid season
  • Use / keeping: 1 week

Growing

  • Cropping: Heavy
  • Flowering group: 2
  • Fertility: Self-sterile
  • Triploid: No
  • Good pollinator: Yes
  • Vigour: Average growth
  • Gardening skill: Very easy
  • General disease resistance: Good

Climate

  • Suitable for temperate climates
  • Suitable for N. England?: Yes

Relationships to other varieties

Parents and other ancestors of this variety:

Bountiful identification photos from official fruit collections


UK National Fruit Collection

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UK National Fruit Collection

Bountiful identification photos from website visitors


Bountiful apples tape


Bountiful apples

Copyright: Andrew Ross

Bountiful apple tree tape


Bountiful apple tree

Copyright: Andrew Ross


Rate this variety for flavor

Current rating: out of 5. Total votes cast: 0
 

Visitor comments

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20 Sep 2011 Andrew c RossHAMPSHIRE, United Kingdom
2011. Small crop of around 40 apples, mostly with bitter pip. The tree appears to be becoming biennial. Also there have been quite a few flowers on the tree in mid September.
10 Apr 2010 N. BuckCAMBRIDGESHIRE, United Kingdom
A reliable, regular, heavy cropper. Seems to spread out the opening of blossoms for a slightly longer flowering period than most apples, which probably improves the chance of pollination and probably reduces the amount of blossom open at any given time, which may reduce the damage from a late frost. Not much trouble with pests or diseases, apart from some Capsid bug attacks. Fortunately, the capsid bug nibblings on the fruit are only on the skin and usually heal, so the fruits develop fairly normally although may be russeted and bumpy in places, where the capsid damage has healed-over. Unfortunately, being a dual-purpose fruit, it is only average for flavour; a bit too acid for an ideal eater and a bit too mild for an ideal cooker. But all-in-all, a very useful variety.
30 Aug 2009 Mike RobertsN,HANTS, United Kingdom
Very Bountiful uniform shape good for cooking.

31 Oct 2008 Andrew C RossHAMPSHIRE, United Kingdom
We have a 7 year old bountiful growing in our garden. This year it produced roughly 200 good sized apples, very disease free with a good shape. They are particularly nice as baked apples, cored, filled with currents, and a knob of butter and a spoon of honey and microwaved for three minutes.
14 Sep 2008 John WilliamsNOTTINGHAM, United Kingdom
I fully agree with your notes on this apple. I have one growing in a half-barrel on my patio.It produced 10 large apples the first year after planting,and 25 this year.Your taste notes are correct...picked in September the flesh is very firm, and certainly sweet enough to eat, and also cooks very well.

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Fruit tree register

Do you have a tree of this variety in your garden or orchard? If so please register the details here and contribute to our international register of fruit trees.

The following Bountiful trees have been registered - click the name to view more details of each tree.

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Latest Spring blossom records for this variety

2011 season

  • 10th April  2011  - tree owned by Simon in MALVERN, United Kingdom
  • 9th April  2011  - tree owned by Kim in , United Kingdom

2010 season

  • 29th April  2010  - tree owned by N. in CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom
  • 23rd April  2010  - tree owned by Kim in , United Kingdom

2009 season

  • 20th April  2009  - tree owned by N. in CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom

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Latest harvest records for this variety

2011 season

    2010 season

    • 3rd week August  2010  - tree owned by Kim in , United Kingdom

    2009 season

    • September  2009  - tree owned by N. in CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom

Mature heights for Bountiful trees

This table shows the likely mature height for a Bountiful tree taking into account the vigor of the variety, the rootstock, and soil conditions.

Rootstock Soil quality
Poor Below average Average Above average Very good
P22 2.5 ft
0.8 m		 3.1 ft
0.9 m		 3.7 ft
1.1 m		 4.3 ft
1.3 m		 4.9 ft
1.5 m
M27 2.8 ft
0.9 m		 3.5 ft
1.1 m		 4.2 ft
1.3 m		 4.9 ft
1.5 m		 5.6 ft
1.7 m
M9 4.2 ft
1.3 m		 5.3 ft
1.6 m		 6.3 ft
1.9 m		 7.4 ft
2.3 m		 8.4 ft
2.6 m
Bud.9 4.2 ft
1.3 m		 5.3 ft
1.6 m		 6.3 ft
1.9 m		 7.4 ft
2.3 m		 8.4 ft
2.6 m
Geneva 16 4.2 ft
1.3 m		 5.3 ft
1.6 m		 6.3 ft
1.9 m		 7.4 ft
2.3 m		 8.4 ft
2.6 m
Geneva 11 4.9 ft
1.5 m		 6.1 ft
1.9 m		 7.4 ft
2.3 m		 8.6 ft
2.6 m		 9.8 ft
3.0 m
M26 5.3 ft
1.6 m		 6.6 ft
2.0 m		 7.9 ft
2.4 m		 9.2 ft
2.8 m		 10.5 ft
3.2 m
Geneva 30 5.6 ft
1.7 m		 7.0 ft
2.1 m		 8.4 ft
2.6 m		 9.8 ft
3.0 m		 11.2 ft
3.4 m
MM102 5.6 ft
1.7 m		 7.0 ft
2.1 m		 8.4 ft
2.6 m		 9.8 ft
3.0 m		 11.2 ft
3.4 m
M7 6.3 ft
1.9 m		 7.9 ft
2.4 m		 9.5 ft
2.9 m		 11.0 ft
3.4 m		 12.6 ft
3.9 m
M116 6.3 ft
1.9 m		 7.9 ft
2.4 m		 9.5 ft
2.9 m		 11.0 ft
3.4 m		 12.6 ft
3.9 m
MM106 7.0 ft
2.1 m		 8.8 ft
2.7 m		 10.5 ft
3.2 m		 12.3 ft
3.8 m		 14.0 ft
4.3 m
MM111 8.4 ft
2.6 m		 10.5 ft
3.2 m		 12.6 ft
3.9 m		 14.7 ft
4.5 m		 16.8 ft
5.2 m
Bud.118 9.1 ft
2.8 m		 11.4 ft
3.5 m		 13.7 ft
4.2 m		 15.9 ft
4.9 m		 18.2 ft
5.6 m
M25 10.5 ft
3.2 m		 13.1 ft
4.0 m		 15.8 ft
4.8 m		 18.4 ft
5.6 m		 21.0 ft
6.4 m

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