Applevariety
Blandurette
Also known as Blandurette (Correze)
Blandurette (Correze)
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-green skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart, aromatic and crisp. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- slightly sweet, subacid, slightly aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour sometimes slight brownish-orange flushBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white, browns quickly
- Shape
- flat to intermediate, convex
- Size
- smallFruit width 47-51 mmFruit height 37-42 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges occasionally slightly ribbed at eyeRusset pattern pale russet at base and thin russet netting
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- tree
- upright
- flavour
- slightly sweet, subacid, slightly aromatic
- ribbing
- occasionally slightly ribbed at eye
- synonyms
- Blandurette (Correze)
- fruit size
- small
- fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, convex
- fruit width
- 47-51 mm
- over colour
- sometimes slight brownish-orange flush
- russet type
- pale russet at base and thin russet netting
- flesh colour
- creamy white, browns quickly
- fruit height
- 37-42 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, crisp
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.