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Grosse de Saint-Clement
Culinary apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Synonyms:
- Gros de St. Clement
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1947 - 127
Received by the National Fruit Trials from France, but known in Belgium since 1895. Fruits are rather acid and have very little flavour.
- Accession name
- Grosse de Saint-Clement
- Flowering time ›››
- 3rd May10% flowering
9th MayFull (80%) flowering
16th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early September 1
- Size
- large-very large 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Height
- 85.04 mm 1
- Width
- 97.90 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- weak 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
- Greasiness
- Medium 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Coarseness
- fine 1
- Juiciness
- juicy 1
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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