Adersleber Calville
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
A German variety raised in about 1870 at Adersleben, Saxony by Lichtard. Fruits have firm, fine, white flesh with a subacid, sweet flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Aderslebener Calville, Aderslebener Kalvill, Aderslebener Kalvill-Samling, Adersleber Calvil, Adersleber Calvill, Adersleber Kalvil, Adersleber Kalvill, Calville d'Adersleben, Kalvil Aderslebenskii, Kalvil Aderslebensky
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Calville Blanc d'Hiver x Gravenstein
- Shape
- Truncate conical 2
- Size
- large 2
- Height
- 60.00mm 2
- Width
- 85.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- strong 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Pink 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1947 - 457
- Accession name
- Adersleber Calville
- Flowering time ›››
- 3rd May10% flowering
8th MayFull (80%) flowering 14th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Mid September 1

- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
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