Applevariety
Pomme Royale
Also known as Bard Apple +22
Bard Apple · Beard Burden · Beard Burdon · Beard's Burden · Bullripe · Coe's Spice · Dyer · Golden Spice · Harris White Hall · Mygatt's Bergamot · Mygott's Bergamot · Penneo's Favourite · Pinneo's Favorite · Pinneo's Favourite · Pinneos Favourite · Pomme Royal · Pomme Roye · Pomme Water · Pommewater · Smithfield Spice · Tompkins · White Spice · Woodstock
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round in shape; tart, mildly tart, crisp and rich. Picked in mid-September.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acidsubacid
- Firmness
- tender
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- rich, sub acid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour slight brownish flush and marblings of russetBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish white
- Shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- medium to large
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eye and sometimes on body
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- rich, sub acid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye and sometimes on body
- synonyms
- Bard Apple, Beard Burden, Beard Burdon, Beard's Burden, Bullripe, Coe's Spice, Dyer, Golden Spice, Harris White Hall, Mygatt's Bergamot, Mygott's Bergamot, Penneo's Favourite, Pinneo's Favorite, Pinneo's Favourite, Pinneos Favourite, Pomme Royal, Pomme Roye, Pomme Water, Pommewater, Smithfield Spice, Tompkins, White Spice, Woodstock
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular, convex
- over colour
- slight brownish flush and marblings of russet
- flesh colour
- yellowish white
- flesh texture
- fine, crisp, tender
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.