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Patte de Loup
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Thought to have originated in the late 1700s in Beaupreau, Marie-et-Loire, France. Fruits have firm flesh with a sweet, subacid, perfumed flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Patte du Loup, Pocre de Loup, Pomme de Loup
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Flat 2
- Size
- small-medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Green 2
- Over Colour
- Brown 2
- Russet
- high-very high 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1948 - 204
- Accession name
- Patte de Loup
- Flowering time ›››
- 10th May10% flowering
16th MayFull (80%) flowering
25th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019