Applevariety
Pomme d'Enfer
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, conical in shape; tart and firm. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- acid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed brownish red and deep red streaksSkin texture thick, toughBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- tall, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 54-60 mmFruit height 52-56 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges not, or slightly ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern russet at base and sometimes elsewhere
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- tree
- spreading
- flavour
- acid
- ribbing
- not, or slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- tall, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 54-60 mm
- over colour
- flushed brownish red and deep red streaks
- russet type
- russet at base and sometimes elsewhere
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 52-56 mm
- skin texture
- thick, tough
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.