Applevariety
Jean Tondeur
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and green-yellow skin, flat in shape; mildly tart and soft. Picked in late October.
Origin · France
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed brownish redSkin texture slightly roughBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish white
- Shape
- flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 59-73 mmFruit height 44-56 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye, prominent ribs on bodyRusset pattern some russet
Origin & family
Where Jean Tondeur began
Recorded origin
France
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye, prominent ribs on body
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 59-73 mm
- over colour
- flushed brownish red
- russet type
- some russet
- flesh colour
- yellowish white
- fruit height
- 44-56 mm
- skin texture
- slightly rough
- flesh texture
- soft, fine
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
- flowering time
- late
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.