Jeanne Hardy
syn. Zhanna Gardi
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1878 by M. Hardy at the School of Horticulture, Versailles, France and named after Jeanne Hardy, his daughter. Fruits have soft, juicy, sweet flesh with no particular flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 13th May (full) · 21st May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- slightly subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 82-89 mm
- Over colour
- flushed crimson
- Russet type
- occassional russet
- Flesh colour
- yellowish
- Fruit height
- 60-64 mm
- Flesh texture
- firm, crisp
- Ground colour
- pale yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Culinary
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Flat
- Width
- 86.44 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 67.65 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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