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Leonie de Sonnaville
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by P. de Sonnaville, IVT, Wageningen, The Netherlands. It was received by the National Fruit Trials in 1974. Fruits are sweet and juicy with an aromatic flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Jonathan
Accession No.
1974 - 339
- Accession name
- Leonie de Sonnaville
- Flowering time ›››
- 14th May10% flowering
18th MayFull (80%) flowering
24th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early October 1
- Size
- medium-large 1
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- absent 1
- Crown
- weak-medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Juiciness
- juicy 1
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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