Coul Blush
Type: Cooking, Sauce
Identification: Medium size, round with angular faces. The skin is pale yellow with blushed dull red on the sun exposed face and streaked with a darker red. Darke red lenticels.The stalk is slender.
Characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, crisp, somewhat brisk and very aromatic.
Uses: A highly prized cooking apple. Also a good cookingapple that makes a brisk, lemon coloured sauce.
Origins: Raised by Sir George Mackenzie, Coul, Ross?shire, Scotland. First fruited 1827.
Cultivation: Vigorous, spreading spur bearer. Ripens in the first half of the first period.
Pollination Group: B
Pollination Peak: 7
Ploidism: Self sterile. Group B. Day 7.