Applevariety
Cinq Cotes
Also known as Cinq Morceaux
Cinq Morceaux
A cooking apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; mildly tart and firm. Picked in late October.
Origin · France
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour pale orange stripesBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- white, tinged yellow
- Shape
- tall to intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 54-72 mmFruit height 54-63 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges prominent ribs at eye and on bodyRusset pattern numerous fine dots, russet at base
Origin & family
Where Cinq Cotes began
Recorded origin
France
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- prominent ribs at eye and on body
- synonyms
- Cinq Morceaux
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- tall to intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 54-72 mm
- over colour
- pale orange stripes
- russet type
- numerous fine dots, russet at base
- flesh colour
- white, tinged yellow
- fruit height
- 54-63 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, fine
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.