Applevariety
Pomme de Feu (Indre)
A cooking apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, flat-round in shape; mildly tart and firm. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- slightly subacid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed orangeSkin texture very greasyBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 66 mmFruit height 55 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern netted and dotted with russet
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- slightly subacid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 66 mm
- over colour
- flushed orange
- russet type
- netted and dotted with russet
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- fruit height
- 55 mm
- skin texture
- very greasy
- flesh texture
- firm, fine
- 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.