Applevariety
Domnesc
Also known as Basilico +32
Basilico · de Moldavie · der Gotterapfel · Dominechti · Dominechty de Moldavie · Domineschta · Domineschter · Domineschti · Domineschty · Domineshty moldavskoe · Dominetscher · Dominisca · Dominiska · Dominiski · Domneschti · Domnesty · Gospodskoe · Goterapfel · Gotter Apfel · Gotterapfel · Grosser Domineschty aus Bender · Hernapfel · Herrapfel · Herrenapfel · Herrnapfel · Moldauer Furstenapfel · Moldauer Gotterapfel · Moldauischer Fuersterapfel · Moldauischer Herrnapfel · Moldavier Gotterapfel · Pomme de Moldavie · Pomme de Seigneur · Vasilico
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and green-yellow skin, flat-round in shape, first recorded in 1831; tart and soft. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- faintly acid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed orange, streaked redBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- white or greenish white tinged yellow
- Shape
- flat, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- Size
- large
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on body
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- faintly acid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- synonyms
- Basilico, de Moldavie, der Gotterapfel, Dominechti, Dominechty de Moldavie, Domineschta, Domineschter, Domineschti, Domineschty, Domineshty moldavskoe, Dominetscher, Dominisca, Dominiska, Dominiski, Domneschti, Domnesty, Gospodskoe, Goterapfel, Gotter Apfel, Gotterapfel, Grosser Domineschty aus Bender, Hernapfel, Herrapfel, Herrenapfel, Herrnapfel, Moldauer Furstenapfel, Moldauer Gotterapfel, Moldauischer Fuersterapfel, Moldauischer Herrnapfel, Moldavier Gotterapfel, Pomme de Moldavie, Pomme de Seigneur, Vasilico
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- over colour
- flushed orange, streaked red
- flesh colour
- white or greenish white tinged yellow
- flesh texture
- coarse, soft
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos

National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.