la Nationale
syn. Bernardin, Bourget, Cusset a Fruits Rouges, Cusset Rouge, Deesse nationale, Natsionalnoe
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by M. Roux at Sainte-Romain-au-Mont d'Or, Rhone, France. It first fruited in 1871. Fruits have firm, sweet flesh.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet
- Ribbing
- sometimes ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 74 mm
- Over colour
- almost covered dark brownish red flush
- Russet type
- dots
- Flesh colour
- white, veined green
- Fruit height
- 62 mm
- Flesh texture
- firm
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Globose
- Width
- 73.84 mm
- Crunch
- crumbly
- Height
- 58.80 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Over colour
- Dark Red
- Flesh colour
- Greenish
- Ground colour
- Whitish green
- Over colour amount
- low-medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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