Applevariety
Rambour Papeleu
Also known as Papeleu's Rambour +9
Papeleu's Rambour · Rambour Papaleu · Rambour Papele · Rambour Papelin · Rambour Papuleu · Rambour Popelen · Rambour Popelin · Rambourg Papeleu · Rambourg Popelen · Rambourg Popelin
A cooking and dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, introduced in about 1853; sweet, mildly tart, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Botanic Gardens at Nikita, Crimea, Russia
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness WeakSurface colour OrangeBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- largeWidth 77.00 mmHeight 67.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Rambour Papeleu began
Recorded origin
Botanic Gardens at Nikita, Crimea, Russia
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary / Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 77.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 67.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Papeleu's Rambour, Rambour Papaleu, Rambour Papele, Rambour Papelin, Rambour Papuleu, Rambour Popelen, Rambour Popelin, Rambourg Papeleu, Rambourg Popelen, Rambourg Popelin
- coarseness
- fine
- greasiness
- Weak
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.