France Deliquet
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- medium-large 2
- Height
- 60.50mm 2
- Width
- 74.50mm 2
- Ribbing
- medium-strong 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Greasiness
- Medium 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
Accession No.
1950 - 106
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1950 from Angers, France. Fruits have firm, fine, crisp flesh with a slightly sweet, slightly subacid flavour.
- Accession name
- France Deliquet
- Flowering time ›››
- 14th May10% flowering
20th MayFull (80%) flowering 27th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Late October 1

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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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