Pomme d'Amour
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Received 1947. Origin: Received from France.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 16th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- slightly sweet, slightly subacid
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye
- Fruit size
- small to medium
- Fruit shape
- intermediate to tall, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 46-57 mm
- Over colour
- flushed brownish orange with carmine streaks
- Russet type
- russet at base, russet dots and patches on body
- Flesh colour
- yellowish white
- Fruit height
- 40-48 mm
- Flesh texture
- firm
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Russet
- very low
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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