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la Nationale
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by M. Roux at Sainte-Romain-au-Mont d'Or, Rhone, France. It first fruited in 1871. Fruits have firm, sweet flesh.
- Synonyms:
- Bernardin, Bourget, Cusset a Fruits Rouges, Cusset Rouge, Deesse nationale, Natsionalnoe
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1947 - 056
- Accession name
- La Nationale
- Flowering time ›››
- 22nd May10% flowering
27th MayFull (80%) flowering
3rd June90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late October 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Globose 1
- Height
- 58.80 mm 1
- Width
- 73.84 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- weak-medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish green 1
- Over Colour
- Dark Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- low-medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/washed out 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Crunch
- crumbly 1
- Juiciness
- juicy 1
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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