Applevariety
Grosse Rouge
Also known as d'Enfer
d'Enfer
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet. Picked in late October.
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Origin · Lot region of France
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Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- tender
- Flavour
- very sweet, perfumed
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed pink, streaked redBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- intermediate to tall, rectangular or obconic, convex
- Size
- medium
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at apex
Origin & family
Where Grosse Rouge began
Recorded origin
Lot region of France
France
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- very sweet, perfumed
- ribbing
- ribbed at apex
- synonyms
- d'Enfer
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate to tall, rectangular or obconic, convex
- over colour
- flushed pink, streaked red
- flesh colour
- white
- flesh texture
- tender
- ground colour
- yellow