Applevariety
Madoue Rouge
Also known as Madou
Madou
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and whitish-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; sweet and mildly tart. Picked in late October.
Origin · Nieul (Haute-Vienne), France
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour coverage high-very highSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- medium
Origin & family
Where Madoue Rouge began
Recorded origin
Nieul (Haute-Vienne)
France
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- ribbing
- medium
- synonyms
- Madou
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.