Applevariety
Marie-Joseph d'Othee
Also known as de Fer +6
de Fer · Ijzerappel · Marie-Jose · Pomme de Deux Ans · Pomme de Fer · Reine Marie d'Otlee · Reine Marie Joseph d'Othee
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in late October.
Origin · Othee in the province of Liege, Belgium
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour BrownBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 69.00 mmHeight 57.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Marie-Joseph d'Othee began
Recorded origin
Othee in the province of Liege
Belgium
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 69.00 mm
- height
- 57.00 mm
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- de Fer, Ijzerappel, Marie-Jose, Pomme de Deux Ans, Pomme de Fer, Reine Marie d'Otlee, Reine Marie Joseph d'Othee
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.