Applevariety
Jewett's Fine Red
Also known as Belle Rouge de Jewett +6
Belle Rouge de Jewett · Jewell's Fine Red · Jewett · Jewett Red · Jewett's Red · Jewitt's Fine Red · Nodhead
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat-round in shape, first recorded in 1842; mildly tart and aromatic. Picked in late September.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Texture
- moderately fine, tender
- Flavour
- subacid, aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour nearly covered with deep red flush and stripesSkin texture bluish white scarf skin at baseBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish
- Shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 61 mmFruit height 53 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges very slightly ribbedRusset pattern dotted
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, aromatic
- ribbing
- very slightly ribbed
- synonyms
- Belle Rouge de Jewett, Jewell's Fine Red, Jewett, Jewett Red, Jewett's Red, Jewitt's Fine Red, Nodhead
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 61 mm
- over colour
- nearly covered with deep red flush and stripes
- russet type
- dotted
- flesh colour
- yellowish
- fruit height
- 53 mm
- skin texture
- bluish white scarf skin at base
- flesh texture
- moderately fine, tender
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.