Applevariety
Frogmore Prolific
Also known as Fertile de Frogmore +4
Fertile de Frogmore · Frogmore · Frogmorske · Frogwore Prolifique · Fruchtbarer von Frogmore
A cooking apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, raised in about 1865; tart, juicy and soft. Picked in early September.
Origin · Royal Gardens, Frogmore, Windsor, England
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- soft
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- largeWidth 89.00 mmHeight 70.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges absent
Origin & family
Where Frogmore Prolific began
Recorded origin
Royal Gardens, Frogmore, Windsor, England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 89.00 mm
- height
- 70.00 mm
- ribbing
- absent
- synonyms
- Fertile de Frogmore, Frogmore, Frogmorske, Frogwore Prolifique, Fruchtbarer von Frogmore
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.