Rouget
Dessert / Cider · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Received 1948. From Cotes-du-Nord, France.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 8th May (10%) · 13th May (full) · 19th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 69 mm
- Over colour
- largely covered with carmine flush and darker streaks
- Flesh colour
- white
- Fruit height
- 55 mm
- Skin texture
- greasy
- Flesh texture
- fairly crisp and tender
- Ground colour
- pale yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert / Cider
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Crunch
- crisp
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- high
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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