Applevariety
Alfred Jolibois
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, oblong-conical in shape; mildly tart and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Yonne, Gurgy, France
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed and striped dull dark redBackground colour yellowish green to yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Size
- smallFruit width 49 mmFruit height 46 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye, slightly on bodyRusset pattern occasional netted russet
Origin & family
Where Alfred Jolibois began
Recorded origin
Yonne, Gurgy
France
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye, slightly on body
- fruit size
- small
- fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 49 mm
- over colour
- flushed and striped dull dark red
- russet type
- occasional netted russet
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 46 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, fine
- ground colour
- yellowish green to yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.