Rouget
Dessert / Cider apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1948 - 278
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1948 from Cotes-du-Nord, France. Fruits have fairly crisp, tender white flesh with a sweet, subacid flavour.
- Accession name
- Rouget (Cotes du Nord)
- Flowering time ›››
- 8th May10% flowering
13th MayFull (80%) flowering 19th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Late September 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Flat globose 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- high 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/solid flush 1
- Greasiness
- Medium 1
- Crunch
- crisp 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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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