Trotuse
syn. Turtur
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in the Trotuse Valley, Romania. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1948. Fruits have spongy, dry, greenish white flesh with a sweet flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 13th May (full) · 21st May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, no acidity
- Ribbing
- not ribbed
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 58-69 mm
- Over colour
- flushed purplish red, some stripes
- Russet type
- whitish dots, russet at base
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Fruit height
- 46-59 mm
- Skin texture
- greasy
- Flesh texture
- spongy, dry
- Ground colour
- green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- low
- Over colour pattern
- mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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