Applevariety
Galantine
Also known as Carriere +1
Carriere · Charriere
A cooking and dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart, juicy and crisp. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · France
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed redBackground colour deep yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish white to white
- Shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex to straight
- Size
- medium to large
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed on bodyRusset pattern some russet
Origin & family
Where Galantine began
Recorded origin
France
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed on body
- synonyms
- Carriere, Charriere
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex to straight
- over colour
- flushed red
- russet type
- some russet
- flesh colour
- yellowish white to white
- flesh texture
- medium tender
- ground colour
- deep yellow
- flowering time
- mid-late to late
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.