Pomme d'Enfer
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Received by NFT 1948. From Allier, France.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
- Flowering
- 8th May (10%) · 14th May (full) · 21st May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Tree
- spreading
- Flavour
- acid
- Ribbing
- not, or slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- tall, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 54-60 mm
- Over colour
- flushed brownish red and deep red streaks
- Russet type
- russet at base and sometimes elsewhere
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Fruit height
- 52-56 mm
- Skin texture
- thick, tough
- Flesh texture
- firm
- Ground colour
- yellowish green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Conical
- Width
- 69.42 mm
- Height
- 69.94 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Over colour
- Dark Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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