Applevariety
Rougemont
A medium dessert apple with green-yellow skin, flat-round in shape; soft.
Origin · Sussex, Crawley, England
Taste & texture
- Firmness
- soft
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour scarlet flush and streaksSkin texture greasyBackground colour orange-yellow
- Shape
- tall, rectangular
- Size
- medium
Origin & family
Where Rougemont began
Recorded origin
Sussex, Crawley, England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- tall, rectangular
- over colour
- scarlet flush and streaks
- skin texture
- greasy
- flesh texture
- very soft
- ground colour
- orange-yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.