Grosse Rouge
syn. d'Enfer
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in the Lot region of France. It was described in 1947. Fruits are very sweet with a perfumed flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
- Flowering
- 13th May (10%) · 18th May (full) · 26th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- very sweet, perfumed
- Ribbing
- ribbed at apex
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- intermediate to tall, rectangular or obconic, convex
- Over colour
- flushed pink, streaked red
- Flesh colour
- white
- Flesh texture
- tender
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- strong
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- low
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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