Applevariety
Doree de Tournai
Also known as Doree de Tournay +2
Doree de Tournay · Gold Apfel von Tournay · la Dorade
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and green-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart, aromatic and crisp. Picked in late September.
Origin · Tournai, Belgium
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- rich
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour coverage lowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 54.00 mmHeight 48.00 mm
- Appearance
- lowSurface ridges weak-medium
Origin & family
Where Doree de Tournai began
Recorded origin
Tournai
Belgium
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 54.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 48.00 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- weak-medium
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Doree de Tournay, Gold Apfel von Tournay, la Dorade
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour amount
- low
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.