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Coquette d'Auvergne
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Truncate conical 2
- Size
- medium-large 2
- Height
- 56.00mm 2
- Width
- 68.50mm 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Dark Red 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Coarseness
- coarse 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1947 - 166
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1947 from France. Fruits have soft, rather mealy flesh which can sometimes be tinged orange under the skin.
- Accession name
- Coquette d'Auvergne
- Flowering time ›››
- 10th May10% flowering
16th MayFull (80%) flowering
24th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 1
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019