Applevariety
Trotuse
Also known as Turtur
Turtur
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; sweet and dry. Picked in late October.
Origin · Trotuse Valley, Romania
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Texture
- spongy, dry
- Flavour
- sweet, no acidity
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed purplish red, some stripesSkin texture greasyBackground colour green
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- flat to intermediate, conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 58-69 mmFruit height 46-59 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges not ribbedRusset pattern whitish dots, russet at base
Origin & family
Where Trotuse began
Recorded origin
Trotuse Valley
Romania
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, no acidity
- ribbing
- not ribbed
- synonyms
- Turtur
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, conic, convex
- fruit width
- 58-69 mm
- over colour
- flushed purplish red, some stripes
- russet type
- whitish dots, russet at base
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 46-59 mm
- skin texture
- greasy
- flesh texture
- spongy, dry
- ground colour
- green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.