Pomme Royale
syn. Bard Apple, Beard Burden, Beard Burdon, Beard's Burden, Bullripe, Coe's Spice, Dyer, Golden Spice, Harris White Hall, Mygatt's Bergamot, Mygott's Bergamot, Penneo's Favourite, Pinneo's Favorite, Pinneo's Favourite, Pinneos Favourite, Pomme Royal, Pomme Roye, Pomme Water, Pommewater, Smithfield Spice, Tompkins, White Spice, Woodstock
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Believed to have originated in the USA. It was recorded in 1835. Renamed Dyer in about 1850. Fruits have fine, crisp, tender, yellowish white flesh with a rich and subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 3rd May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 15th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- rich, sub acid
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye and sometimes on body
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular, convex
- Over colour
- slight brownish flush and marblings of russet
- Flesh colour
- yellowish white
- Flesh texture
- fine, crisp, tender
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Globose
- Width
- 82.82 mm
- Height
- 74.28 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Juiciness
- dry-medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- very low
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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