Applevariety
Ildrod Pigeon
Also known as Eldrau Pigeon +12
Eldrau Pigeon · Eldrod Pigeon · Eldrott Duvapple · Feuerroter Pigeon · Feuerroter Taubenapfel · Golubok ognenno-krasnyi · Ilrood Pigeon · M0rkerod Pigeon · Morke rod Pigeon · Pigeon rouge feu · Taubenapfel Feuerroter · Yldrod Pigeon · Ylrod Pigeon
A dessert apple with white flesh and yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart, aromatic and crisp. Picked in early October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour PinkBackground colour YellowSurface colour coverage high-very high
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 55.00 mmHeight 55.00 mm
- Appearance
- very lowSurface ridges medium
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 55.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 55.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Eldrau Pigeon, Eldrod Pigeon, Eldrott Duvapple, Feuerroter Pigeon, Feuerroter Taubenapfel, Golubok ognenno-krasnyi, Ilrood Pigeon, M0rkerod Pigeon, Morke rod Pigeon, Pigeon rouge feu, Taubenapfel Feuerroter, Yldrod Pigeon, Ylrod Pigeon
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Pink
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
Photos

National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.