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Calville d'Oullins

syn. Calvill d'Oullins, Kalvil Ullenskii

Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession

Discovered by nurseryman A. Jaboulay, Oullins, Lyon, France in about 1850. Fruits have crisp, acid flesh.

Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Picking time
Early October
Flowering
8th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
Flavour
sweet and subacid
Ribbing
ribbed in eye basin
Fruit size
medium to large
Fruit shape
intermediate, conic, convex
Over colour
flushed pink and red, striped dark red
Flesh colour
white
Flesh texture
fairly fine, crisp, rather dry
Ground colour
bright yellow
NFC characterisation
Size
large-very large
Type
Culinary / Dessert
Crown
very weak
Shape
Globose conical
Width
80.05 mm
Crunch
crisp
Height
71.21 mm
Russet
low
Ribbing
weak-medium
Juiciness
dry
Coarseness
fine
Over colour
Red
Flesh colour
White
Ground colour
Whitish green
Over colour amount
high
Over colour pattern
mottled/solid flush

Source · National Fruit Collection

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