Applevariety
Jeanne Hardy
Also known as Zhanna Gardi
Zhanna Gardi
A cooking apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat in shape, raised in 1878; sweet, mildly tart, juicy and crisp. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · School of Horticulture, Versailles, France
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- slightly subacid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed crimsonBackground colour pale yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish
- Shape
- flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 82-89 mmFruit height 60-64 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern occassional russet
Origin & family
Where Jeanne Hardy began
Recorded origin
School of Horticulture, Versailles
France
Jeanne Hardy’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Jeanne Hardy
School of Horticulture, Versailles, France
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Alexander → Jeanne HardyParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- slightly subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- synonyms
- Zhanna Gardi
- parentage
- Alexander x Unknown
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 82-89 mm
- over colour
- flushed crimson
- russet type
- occassional russet
- flesh colour
- yellowish
- fruit height
- 60-64 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, crisp
- ground colour
- pale yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.