Jean Tondeur
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in France. It was described in 1947. Fruits have soft, fine flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye, prominent ribs on body
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 59-73 mm
- Over colour
- flushed brownish red
- Russet type
- some russet
- Flesh colour
- yellowish white
- Fruit height
- 44-56 mm
- Skin texture
- slightly rough
- Flesh texture
- soft, fine
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Flat
- Russet
- low-medium
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Weak
- Over colour
- Pink
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- very low
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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