Applevariety
Faros
Also known as Faraud +7
Faraud · Faro · Grand Faros · Gros Faros · Gros-Faros · Grosser Faros · Pomme de Faro · Pomme de Faros
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin, flat in shape; mildly tart. Picked in late October.
Origin · France
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour coverage medium-high
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- mediumWidth 60.00 mmHeight 45.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Faros began
Recorded origin
France
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 60.00 mm
- height
- 45.00 mm
- ribbing
- weak
- synonyms
- Faraud, Faro, Grand Faros, Gros Faros, Gros-Faros, Grosser Faros, Pomme de Faro, Pomme de Faros
- coarseness
- coarse
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour amount
- medium-high
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.