Applevariety
Lille
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; mildly tart. Picked in late October.
Origin · France
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Texture
- fine
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed pinkSkin texture slightly rough, thick, toughBackground colour pale yellowish green
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- intermediate to tall, rectangular, convex
- Size
- small to mediumFruit width 48-60 mmFruit height 45-53 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eyeRusset pattern dotted and patched with russet
Origin & family
Where Lille began
Recorded origin
France
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye
- fruit size
- small to medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate to tall, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 48-60 mm
- over colour
- flushed pink
- russet type
- dotted and patched with russet
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 45-53 mm
- skin texture
- slightly rough, thick, tough
- flesh texture
- fine
- ground colour
- pale yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.