Applevariety
Peche Melba
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and green-yellow skin, flat in shape; mildly tart, firm and dry. Picked in late August.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- dry
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- mediumWidth 70.00 mmHeight 55.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak-medium
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 70.00 mm
- height
- 55.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak-medium
- firmness
- firm
- juiciness
- dry
- coarseness
- coarse
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- 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.