Bedan Apple on G.41 - Cummins Nursery - Fruit Trees, Scions, and Rootstocks for Apples, Pears, Cherries, Plums, Peaches, and Nectarines. A traditional French bittersweet cider apple. Also known as Bedan des Partes. Like most old cider varieties, Bedan tends to biennialism.

Bedan = Variété douce-amère à maturité mi-novembre. Sa floraison tardive associée à une faible feuillaison réduit les risques d’attaque de tavelure. Variété moyennement rustique, de bonne qualité technologique pour la fabrication des cidres.

Fruit colour: Green / Yellow; Fruit colour: Orange; Annual cycle: Deciduous; Flowering duration: Average (2-3 weeks) Flesh colour: White; Fruit size: Small; Fruit shape: Round

summary: A popular Normandy bitter sweet cider apple in use since the Middle Ages. Can be used for a single varietal cider or blended. identification: Medium to small size, round flattened. Base colour is greenish yellow, sometime faintly blushed on the sun exposed face and marked with very small, dark lenticels.

Bedan des Parts is a traditional French hard-cider variety, widely-grown in the cider-producing region of Normandy. It produces a good quality bittersweet juice, usually blended with other varieties. The apples are typically harvested towards the end of November, when the skin has turned from yellow-green to golden-orange.

Variété très recherchée pour obtenir un bon cidre . Très rustique. Alterne beaucoup. Est de la Bretagne.

Variété très recherchée pour obtenir un bon cidre . Très rustique. Est de la Bretagne.

summary: A bitter-sweet vintage cider apple that originated in the Normandy region of France during the mid-1800s and is still highly regarded today for cider making. identification: Small, conic, often irregular shape, sometimes round-flattened, slightly angular faces.

A traditional French bittersweet cider apple. Also known as Bedan des Partes. Like most old cider varieties, Bedan tends to biennialism. The tree is precocious, and productive, and it is resistant to scab but susceptible to fireblight. Apples will hang well on the tree.

'Bedan des Parts' is a vigorous, upright, deciduous tree with ovate, toothed, grey-green leaves turning yellow or orange in autumn, pale pink flowers in late spring, and edible, oval, heavily red-flushed, yellow fruit ready for harvest in mid-autumn.