Cravert
syn. Cra Vert, Cravert Vert
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
A chance seedling discovered in about 1870 or earlier, either in a field of the Depigny family or in the forest of Allogny, France. Fruits have firm flesh with a sweet flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic to conic, convex to straight
- Fruit width
- 56-62 mm
- Over colour
- slight brown flush
- Flesh colour
- white, tinged green
- Fruit height
- 50 mm
- Flesh texture
- slightly tough, firm
- Ground colour
- yellowish green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- n/a
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish green
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- n/a
Source · National Fruit Collection
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