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Welcome to the world's most extensive apples (pommes) database.
Information on over 7,000 apples is available here, all carefully researched and provided in a way that is easy to navigate.
Summary: Remarkably sweet, late summer apple with red-tinged flesh.
Identification: Medium size, round and only slightly conical. The base colour is yellow, also completely washed deep red, sometimes dark on the sun exposed face. Scattered light-coloured spots. The eye is small, closed with long petals and set in a shallow, puckered basin. The stem is short to medium long, thin and set in a shallow cavity with no russetting.
Characteristics: The flesh is white with red stains, fine grained, firm but melting. Very juicy, sweet-tart with a noticeable aroma of apricot and peach.
Uses: A super sweet, early season fresh-eating cultivar.
Origins: Open-pollinated seedling of Reinette Descardre, raised by Alain Rouèche in the Charance region (France) in 2008.
Cultivation: Vigorous. Precocious. Does well on dwarfing rootstock such as M9 to control its vigor.
Diseases: Resistant to powdery mildew and scab.
Ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
Cold storage: Keeps up to two months, but loses quality.
Harvest: Through the second half of the third period.
Harvest period: 3
Type(s): Dessert, Eating
Pollination group: C
Pollination day: 8