Applevariety
Pigeon de Jerusalem
Also known as Coeur de Pigeon +12
Coeur de Pigeon · Gros Pigeon Rouge · Gros Pigeonnet rouge · Gros-Coeur de Pigeon · Gros-Pigeonnet Rouge · Jerusalem · Pigeon · Pigeon d'Hiver · Pigeon Rouge · Pigeonnet de Jerusalem · Pigeonnet Jerusalem · Pigonnet de Jerusalem · Pomme de Jerusalem
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, conical in shape; mildly tart and firm. Picked in late October.
Origin · France
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- subacid, slightly perfumed
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed pale red and darker stripesBackground colour pale yellow
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- intermediate, conic, convex to concave,
- Size
- medium
- Appearance
- Surface ridges prominent ribs base to apexRusset pattern light dots
Origin & family
Where Pigeon de Jerusalem began
Recorded origin
France
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, slightly perfumed
- ribbing
- prominent ribs base to apex
- synonyms
- Coeur de Pigeon, Gros Pigeon Rouge, Gros Pigeonnet rouge, Gros-Coeur de Pigeon, Gros-Pigeonnet Rouge, Jerusalem, Pigeon, Pigeon d'Hiver, Pigeon Rouge, Pigeonnet de Jerusalem, Pigeonnet Jerusalem, Pigonnet de Jerusalem, Pomme de Jerusalem
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate, conic, convex to concave,
- over colour
- flushed pale red and darker stripes
- russet type
- light dots
- flesh colour
- white
- flesh texture
- firm, fine
- ground colour
- pale yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.