Applevariety
Rosa du Perche
Also known as Pourpree
Pourpree
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, oblong in shape; sweet. Picked in early October.
Origin · France
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- medium-large
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Rosa du Perche began
Recorded origin
France
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Oblong
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak
- synonyms
- Pourpree
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.