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Lille
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Originated in France. Described in 1948. Fruits have fine, greenish white flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1948 - 243
- Accession name
- Lille (Pyrenees Orientales)
- Flowering time ›››
- 10th May10% flowering
16th MayFull (80%) flowering
22nd May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late October 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 1
- Height
- 57.41 mm 1
- Width
- 66.65 mm 1
- Ribbing
- absent 1
- Crown
- absent 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- low-medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- washed out/solid flush 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Greasiness
- Weak 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Coarseness
- fine 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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