Calville Rouge du Mont d'Or
syn. Calville du Mont d'Or
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Found at Champagne-au-Mont-d'Or, France and propagated by horticulturist M. Laperriere. Described in 1934. Fruits have soft, rather coarse flesh with a sweet subacid to acid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid to acid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body, sometimes prominent
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- variable, flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 72-80 mm
- Over colour
- very variable amount of dull red flush
- Russet type
- occasional russet patches
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Fruit height
- 60-63 mm
- Flesh texture
- soft, rather coarse
- Ground colour
- yellowish green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Crown
- strong-very strong
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- strong
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Pink
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- mottled/washed out/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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