Applevariety
Teton de Demoiselle
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; mildly tart, dry and soft. Picked in late September.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour bright pinkish red flush and mottling, a few darker streaksBackground colour pale greenish yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish white, soon turning brown, often tinged red about~eye
- Shape
- intermediate, occasionally flat, conic, convex, often concave towards eye
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 69-80 mmFruit height 60-68 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern russet at base
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- intermediate, occasionally flat, conic, convex, often concave towards eye
- fruit width
- 69-80 mm
- over colour
- bright pinkish red flush and mottling, a few darker streaks
- russet type
- russet at base
- flesh colour
- yellowish white, soon turning brown, often tinged red about~eye
- fruit height
- 60-68 mm
- flesh texture
- rather soft, dry
- ground colour
- pale greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.