Applevariety
de Flandre
Also known as Figue
Figue
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart, aromatic and firm. Picked in late October.
Origin · France
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- slightly sweet, subacid, aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed pink, striped redBackground colour light yellow
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- flat to intermediate, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 59-71 mmFruit height 47-62 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye, slightly on body
Origin & family
Where de Flandre began
Recorded origin
France
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- slightly sweet, subacid, aromatic
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye, slightly on body
- synonyms
- Figue
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 59-71 mm
- over colour
- flushed pink, striped red
- flesh colour
- white
- fruit height
- 47-62 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, coarse
- ground colour
- light yellow
- flowering time
- late
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.