Applevariety
Verite
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in late October.
Origin · France
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- slightly sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed dull orange red, streaked darker redSkin texture slightly rough, greasyBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular, sometimes truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 54-65 mmFruit height 45-52 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern green dots, russet at base, a little russet on body
Origin & family
Where Verite began
Recorded origin
France
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- slightly sweet, subacid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular, sometimes truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 54-65 mm
- over colour
- flushed dull orange red, streaked darker red
- russet type
- green dots, russet at base, a little russet on body
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 45-52 mm
- skin texture
- slightly rough, greasy
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
- flowering time
- very late
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.