Teton de Demoiselle
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Thought to have originated in France. Recorded in 1872. Fruits have rather soft, dry, yellowish white tinged red flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 19th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, occasionally flat, conic, convex, often concave towards eye
- Fruit width
- 69-80 mm
- Over colour
- bright pinkish red flush and mottling, a few darker streaks
- Russet type
- russet at base
- Flesh colour
- yellowish white, soon turning brown, often tinged red about~eye
- Fruit height
- 60-68 mm
- Flesh texture
- rather soft, dry
- Ground colour
- pale greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- strong
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 72.21 mm
- Crunch
- crumbly
- Height
- 64.28 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- strong
- Firmness
- soft
- Juiciness
- dry
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- low-medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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