Applevariety
de Jaune
Also known as Breton +12
Breton · d'Argent · de Fer · de Jaun · de Jaune de la Sarthe · de Jon · Giallo della Sarthe · Jaune du Mans · Pomme d'Argent · Pomme de Jaune · Pomme de Jaune de la Sarthe · Reinette du Mans · Sartha's Yellow
A cooking and dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; sweet, crisp and firm. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- sweet, perfumed
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Background colour yellow
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- intermediate to flat, truncateconic to rectangular, convex
- Size
- medium
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eyeRusset pattern dotted with russet
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, perfumed
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye
- synonyms
- Breton, d'Argent, de Fer, de Jaun, de Jaune de la Sarthe, de Jon, Giallo della Sarthe, Jaune du Mans, Pomme d'Argent, Pomme de Jaune, Pomme de Jaune de la Sarthe, Reinette du Mans, Sartha's Yellow
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, truncateconic to rectangular, convex
- russet type
- dotted with russet
- flesh colour
- white
- flesh texture
- firm, crisp
- ground colour
- yellow
- flowering time
- very late
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.