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Calville des Femmes
Culinary apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Found in 1850 in the garden of Comice Horticole, Angers, France. Fruits have firm, crisp flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Calleville des Femmes, Frauen Calvill, Frauen Calville, Frauencalvill, Kalvil zhenskii
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- large 2
- Height
- 79.00mm 2
- Width
- 97.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Brown 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1947 - 245
- Accession name
- Calville des Femmes
- Flowering time ›››
- 9th May10% flowering
15th MayFull (80%) flowering
23rd May90% 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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