Aldi Cox's Orange Pippin

[BUFFS]

When I got the trees I was at Aldi early to pick the best ones and they where all sealed in bags and clearly labeled as Cox's. They wheren't the tail end ones which have often lost there labels.
I've read before about the stories of these supermarket trees being garden centre old stock/ uncertain varieties entering the supply chain and end up incorrectly labelled. Strange though that both my trees are the same variety but not Cox's when they were both labelled as Cox's.

so it seems that name wise it was a cox-up all round..

[TrialAndError]

Agreed, definitely not a Cox's Orange Pippin.

You can see an id picture of Belle de Boskoop on the Brogdale site here:

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Seems a bit of an atypical example.

[boundtothesoil]

Boundtothesoil are your Braeburn, large ribbed apples and do they have pink blossom?

I can't be definite on either of these as I only had two apples on the tree this year and I can't remember the blossom colour. However, it might be worth checking in the supermarkets as I've seen some pretty ribbed, long stalked, english-grown Braeburns on sale in the last couple of weeks (probably class 2 fruit).

[FB.]

suggestion of Belle de Boskoop and this does sound like the one. All the apples where large and ribbed, most had some russetting at the stalk end and also the blossom was a pale pink colour which matches the descriptions I read.

I have a Boskoop and the blossom is quite whitish, quite like the large white attractive blossom of Gravenstein.
Boskoop has unusual leaves which are quite rounded in shape and quite flat.
The fruits tends to be more rounded than the quite ribbed apples in your picture.
My Boskoop apples don't russet much, but neither do most russet apples - it appears to be a climate thing. I also find BdeB to be quite a good apple, although with most fruits the climate they are in can make quite a difference to how good (or bad) they taste; some taste good in cool/dull/wet climates while others do better in hot/sunny/dry climates.


NFC picture of BdeB here:
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BdeB is quite a good tree for growing in a wide range of "challenging" UK conditions; it's vigorous, tough, disease-resistant, has large attractive flowers and has the potential to be very long-lived.
It is triploid.