Applevariety
Rouget
A dessert / cider apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat-round in shape; sweet, mildly tart and crisp. Picked in late September.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Dessert / Cider apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour largely covered with carmine flush and darker streaksSkin texture greasyBackground colour pale yellow
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 69 mmFruit height 55 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 69 mm
- over colour
- largely covered with carmine flush and darker streaks
- flesh colour
- white
- fruit height
- 55 mm
- skin texture
- greasy
- flesh texture
- fairly crisp and tender
- ground colour
- pale yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.