Doree de Tournai
syn. Doree de Tournay, Gold Apfel von Tournay, la Dorade
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by Joseph de Gaest de Braffe at Tournai, Belgium in 1817. Fruits have firm, crisp flesh with a sweet, subacid rich aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 54.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 48.00 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- low
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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