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Pomme Royale
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
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.
- Synonyms:
- 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
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1952 - 131
- Accession name
- Pomme Royale
- Flowering time ›››
- 3rd May10% flowering
9th MayFull (80%) flowering 15th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Mid September 1
- Size
- large-very large 1
- Shape
- Globose 1
- Height
- 74.28 mm 1
- Width
- 82.82 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- weak-medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- very low 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- washed out 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Juiciness
- dry-medium 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 1

- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
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