Applevariety
Rose Rouge
A dessert apple with white flesh and yellow skin, flat-round in shape; mildly tart and firm. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour faint orange flushSkin texture toughBackground colour yellow-green
- Flesh
- whitish
- Shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 61-67 mmFruit height 47-58 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern russet at base, russet spots
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 61-67 mm
- over colour
- faint orange flush
- russet type
- russet at base, russet spots
- flesh colour
- whitish
- fruit height
- 47-58 mm
- skin texture
- tough
- flesh texture
- firm, coarse
- ground colour
- yellow-green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.