Applevariety
Teint Frais
Also known as D-elle de Kerlivio +5
D-elle de Kerlivio · Kerlivio · Pomme Kerlivio · Teint-Frais · Teinte Frais · Ten-fre
A cooking apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat-round in shape; tart and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Brittany, France
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- acid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour salmon pink flushSkin texture greasyBackground colour yellowish
- Flesh
- white, green coreline
- Shape
- flat, sometimes intermediate, rectangular to slightly truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 74-90 mmFruit height 55-70 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed on body, slightly at eyeRusset pattern stellate russet dots and occasional patches
Origin & family
Where Teint Frais began
Recorded origin
Brittany
France
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- acid
- ribbing
- ribbed on body, slightly at eye
- synonyms
- D-elle de Kerlivio, Kerlivio, Pomme Kerlivio, Teint-Frais, Teinte Frais, Ten-fre
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat, sometimes intermediate, rectangular to slightly truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 74-90 mm
- over colour
- salmon pink flush
- russet type
- stellate russet dots and occasional patches
- flesh colour
- white, green coreline
- fruit height
- 55-70 mm
- skin texture
- greasy
- flesh texture
- firm, fine
- ground colour
- yellowish
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.