Applevariety
Marie-Louise Ducote
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, flat in shape; sweet. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- tender
- Flavour
- sweet
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour slightly flushed pink to redBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- intermediate to flattish, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 53-63 mmFruit height 53-57 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges not, or slightly ribbed
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- tree
- upright
- flavour
- sweet
- ribbing
- not, or slightly ribbed
- parentage
- Reinette Cusset
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate to flattish, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 53-63 mm
- over colour
- slightly flushed pink to red
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 53-57 mm
- flesh texture
- tender
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
- flowering time
- late
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.