La Gaillarde
Culinary / 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
- 63.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Coarseness
- coarse 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
1950 - 102
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1950 from Angers, France. Fruits have coarse, crisp flesh with a subacid sweet flavour.
- Accession name
- Gaillarde
- Flowering time ›››
- 7th May10% flowering
12th MayFull (80%) flowering 19th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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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