Bellflower apple

Yellow Bellflower is a cultivar of domesticated apple that originated in New Jersey.^[1][2] It has many other names including "Belle Flavoise" and "Lincoln Pippin".^[1] It is probably the best known of a group of apple cultivars referred to as the yellow bellflower group, with fruit that are generally elongated, with largely yellow skin.^[1] Along with the Yellow Bellflower, the Ortley is the oldest of the group.^[1]

Yellow Bellflower

Malus 'Yellow Bellflower'
Illustration of Yellow Bellflower from 1883
Genus	Malus
Cultivar group	Yellow Bellflower group
Marketing names	Bellflower, Bell Flower, Belle, Bellefleur, Belle Flavoise, Lincoln Pippin, Linnoeus Pippin[1]
Origin	near Crosswicks, New Jersey[1]

Two Yellow Bellflower apples from the 1905 Apples of New York

Chemical composition

Sugar 11.3%, acid 0.56%, pectine 0.43%^[3]

See also

• Bellflower, California, named after the apple
• Bellflower, Illinois, named after the apple