Applevariety
Fleuritard Rouge
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round in shape; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- slightly sweet, slightly subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed brownish orange, streaked redBackground colour pale greenish yellow
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- intermediate, rectangular, occasionally truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 57-65 mmFruit height 48-56 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eye, sometimes on bodyRusset pattern russet specks
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- slightly sweet, slightly subacid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye, sometimes on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular, occasionally truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 57-65 mm
- over colour
- flushed brownish orange, streaked red
- russet type
- russet specks
- flesh colour
- white
- fruit height
- 48-56 mm
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- pale greenish yellow
- flowering time
- very late
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.