Directeur Lesage
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Truncate conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 57.00mm 2
- Width
- 57.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped/mottled 2
- Greasiness
- Medium 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1949 - 202
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1949 from France but possibly originated from Belgium. Fruits have crisp, juicy flesh with a slightly subacid flavour.
- Accession name
- Directeur Lesage
- Flowering time ›››
- 30th April10% flowering
6th MayFull (80%) flowering 14th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Late August 1


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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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