Applevariety
Pomme d'Amour
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in early October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- slightly sweet, slightly subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed brownish orange with carmine streaksBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish white
- Shape
- intermediate to tall, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- small to mediumFruit width 46-57 mmFruit height 40-48 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eyeRusset pattern russet at base, russet dots and patches on body
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- slightly sweet, slightly subacid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye
- fruit size
- small to medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate to tall, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 46-57 mm
- over colour
- flushed brownish orange with carmine streaks
- russet type
- russet at base, russet dots and patches on body
- flesh colour
- yellowish white
- fruit height
- 40-48 mm
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.