Applevariety
Rod Tonnes
Also known as Red Tonnes
Red Tonnes
A dessert apple with white flesh and yellow skin, oval in shape; sweet, mildly tart, aromatic and soft. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Kolbjerk Mark, Denmark
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- sweet, slightly subacid, slightly aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour much flushed and a little striped lively redBackground colour golden yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- tall to intermediate, sometimes flat, truncate-conic, convex, usually asymmetric
- Size
- mediumFruit width 60-68 mmFruit height 53-62 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges strongly ribbed base to apexRusset pattern russet at base and occasionally on body
Origin & family
Where Rod Tonnes began
Recorded origin
Kolbjerk Mark
Denmark
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, slightly subacid, slightly aromatic
- ribbing
- strongly ribbed base to apex
- synonyms
- Red Tonnes
- parentage
- Sport of Rod Tonnes
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- tall to intermediate, sometimes flat, truncate-conic, convex, usually asymmetric
- fruit width
- 60-68 mm
- over colour
- much flushed and a little striped lively red
- russet type
- russet at base and occasionally on body
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- fruit height
- 53-62 mm
- flesh texture
- rather soft, fine
- ground colour
- golden yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.