Applevariety
Appel van Paris
A dessert apple, broad round conical in shape, yellow skin, white flesh. Picked in late-October. Raised in 1935. Subacid and soft.
Origin · Wageningen, The Netherlands
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed and striped orange-redSkin texture smooth, thin, toughBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- cream
- Shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 64 mmFruit height 54 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern very fine netted russet
Origin & family
Where Appel van Paris began
Recorded origin
Wageningen, The Netherlands
Netherlands
Appel van Paris’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Appel van Paris
Wageningen, The Netherlands
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- parentage
- Brabant Bellefleur x Jonathan
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 64 mm
- over colour
- flushed and striped orange-red
- russet type
- very fine netted russet
- flesh colour
- cream
- fruit height
- 54 mm
- skin texture
- smooth, thin, tough
- flesh texture
- fairly soft, fairly coarse
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.