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Normandie
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Thought to have originated in France, although received by the National Fruit Trials from Switzerland in 1948. Fruits have soft, dry, greenish white flesh with an insipid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Flat 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 47.50mm 2
- Width
- 57.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- streaked 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Juiciness
- dry 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
1948 - 330
- Accession name
- Normandie (Switzerland)
- Flowering time ›››
- 21st May10% flowering
27th MayFull (80%) flowering
4th June90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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