Applevariety
Trelage
A cooking apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round in shape; tart, crisp and firm. Picked in late October.
Origin · France
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- acid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed pink, striped redSkin texture streaks of scarf-skinBackground colour pale yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 63-71 mmFruit height 47-58 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges sometimes slightly ribbed at eyeRusset pattern russet on base
Origin & family
Where Trelage began
Recorded origin
France
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- acid
- ribbing
- sometimes slightly ribbed at eye
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 63-71 mm
- over colour
- flushed pink, striped red
- russet type
- russet on base
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 47-58 mm
- skin texture
- streaks of scarf-skin
- flesh texture
- firm, crisp, fine
- ground colour
- pale yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.