Applevariety
Gros Croquet
Also known as Bon Pommier +8
Bon Pommier · Double Belle Fleur · Double Bellefleur · Double Bon Pommier · Double Bonne Ente · Flandre · Gros Rouge · Gros RTau · Grosse Bonne Ente
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet and mildly tart. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- tender
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid, perfumed
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed red with darker streaksSkin texture thin, tender, stickyBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish white, veined green
- Shape
- variable, sometimes flat, sometimes tall, rectangular, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 70-86 mmFruit height 60-66 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern russet marking
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, subacid, perfumed
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- synonyms
- Bon Pommier, Double Belle Fleur, Double Bellefleur, Double Bon Pommier, Double Bonne Ente, Flandre, Gros Rouge, Gros RTau, Grosse Bonne Ente
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- variable, sometimes flat, sometimes tall, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 70-86 mm
- over colour
- flushed red with darker streaks
- russet type
- russet marking
- flesh colour
- yellowish white, veined green
- fruit height
- 60-66 mm
- skin texture
- thin, tender, sticky
- flesh texture
- tender, fine
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.