Applevariety
Garden Royal
Also known as Jardin Royal
Jardin Royal
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and yellow skin, flat-round in shape; mildly tart and aromatic. Picked in late August.
Origin · Sudbury, Massachusetts, USA
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- tender
- Flavour
- subacid, aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour sometimes entirely covered red with stripesSkin texture smooth, thin, tenderBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- yellow
- Shape
- intermediate to flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 53-56 mmFruit height 47-53 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed on bodyRusset pattern dotted
Origin & family
Where Garden Royal began
Recorded origin
Sudbury, Massachusetts, USA
United States
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, aromatic
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed on body
- synonyms
- Jardin Royal
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 53-56 mm
- over colour
- sometimes entirely covered red with stripes
- russet type
- dotted
- flesh colour
- yellow
- fruit height
- 47-53 mm
- skin texture
- smooth, thin, tender
- flesh texture
- fine, tender
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.