Applevariety
de l'Estre
Also known as Apfel von Lestre +16
Apfel von Lestre · de Comte · de Lestre · de Letr · de Lettre · de Lombard · de Saint Germain · de-Lestre · Estre · Pomme de l'Estre · Pomme de Ledre · Pomme de Lestre · Pomme de Saint Germain · Pomme de St. Germain · Reinette de Brive · Reinette de Brives · Sainte-Germaine
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, oval in shape; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour PinkBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Ellipsoid
- Size
- medium-large
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Ellipsoid
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Apfel von Lestre, de Comte, de Lestre, de Letr, de Lettre, de Lombard, de Saint Germain, de-Lestre, Estre, Pomme de l'Estre, Pomme de Ledre, Pomme de Lestre, Pomme de Saint Germain, Pomme de St. Germain, Reinette de Brive, Reinette de Brives, Sainte-Germaine
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Pink
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.