Applevariety
Grosse Mignonnette d'Herbassy
Also known as Cabassou +2
Cabassou · Demoiselle · Mignonnette d'Herbassy
A dessert apple with white flesh and yellow skin, oblong in shape; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in late October.
Origin · France
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- medium-large
- Appearance
- Surface ridges absent
Origin & family
Where Grosse Mignonnette d'Herbassy began
Recorded origin
France
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Oblong
- ribbing
- absent
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Cabassou, Demoiselle, Mignonnette d'Herbassy
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.