Applevariety
Belle de Tours
A cooking apple with yellowish flesh and green-yellow skin, narrow conical in shape; tart and crisp. Picked in early October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- acid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed and striped dark redBackground colour yellow and green
- Flesh
- white and cream
- Shape
- tall, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 90 mmFruit height 90 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- acid
- ribbing
- ribbed
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- tall, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 90 mm
- over colour
- flushed and striped dark red
- flesh colour
- white and cream
- fruit height
- 90 mm
- flesh texture
- crisp
- ground colour
- yellow and green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.