Applevariety

Fameuse

Also known as American Nonpareil +30

American Nonpareil · Amerikanischer Schneeapfel · Chimney Apple · de Neige · du Marechal · Feimez · Formosa · Frogmore Dessert · Hires alma · la Belle Fameuse · la Fameuse · Neige · Neige-Frambose de Gielen · Pomme de Fameuse · Pomme de Neige · Pomme de Neige der Amerikaner · Pomme de Niege · Pomme Fameuse · Pomme Neige · Red American · Royal Snow · Sanguineous · Sanguineum · Sanguineus · Schneeapfel · Snejnoe · Snow · Snow Apple · Snow Chimmey · Snow Chimney · Vytecne jablko

A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, oblong in shape; sweet, wine-like, juicy and soft. Picked in late September.

Taste & texture

Sweetness
sweet
Firmness
soft
Juiciness
juicy
Flavour
vinous
Used for
Dessert apple

How to spot it

Skin
Surface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellow
Flesh
White
Shape
Oblong
Size
mediumWidth 63.00 mmHeight 50.00 mm
Appearance
Surface ridges absent

Origin & family

Fameuse’s family

8 varieties · 7 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children

React Flow
100%
This variety

Fameuse

Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0

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Field notes

Original source notes
Fruit & tree
size
medium
type
Dessert
shape
Oblong
width
63.00 mm
height
50.00 mm
sports
Red Fameuse
ribbing
absent
synonyms
American Nonpareil, Amerikanischer Schneeapfel, Chimney Apple, de Neige, du Marechal, Feimez, Formosa, Frogmore Dessert, Hires alma, la Belle Fameuse, la Fameuse, Neige, Neige-Frambose de Gielen, Pomme de Fameuse, Pomme de Neige, Pomme de Neige der Amerikaner, Pomme de Niege, Pomme Fameuse, Pomme Neige, Red American, Royal Snow, Sanguineous, Sanguineum, Sanguineus, Schneeapfel, Snejnoe, Snow, Snow Apple, Snow Chimmey, Snow Chimney, Vytecne jablko
father to
Lawfam Dodd
over colour
Red
flesh colour
White
ground colour
Whitish yellow
Sources 3

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