Lombarts Calville
syn. Lombarts Kalvill, Lombartscalville, Witte Winter Lombartscalville
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1906 by P. Lombarts, Zundert, The Netherlands. It was introduced by the Lombarts family in 1911. Fruits have firm, fairly coarse, soft flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 21st May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Ribbing
- strongly ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate to tall, truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 67-74 mm
- Flesh colour
- cream
- Fruit height
- 58-68 mm
- Skin texture
- greasy
- Flesh texture
- firm, fairly coarse, soft
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 73.94 mm
- Height
- 63.25 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Greasiness
- Strong
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- mottled/washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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