Applevariety
Fil Jaune
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in late October.
Origin · France
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour BrownBackground colour Green yellow
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 63.50 mmHeight 52.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges very weak
Origin & family
Where Fil Jaune began
Recorded origin
France
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 63.50 mm
- height
- 52.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- very weak
- firmness
- firm
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.