Teint Frais
syn. D-elle de Kerlivio, Kerlivio, Pomme Kerlivio, Teint-Frais, Teinte Frais, Ten-fre
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in Brittany, France. Known since the late 1700s. Fruits have firm, fine, white flesh with an acid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 8th May (10%) · 13th May (full) · 21st May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- acid
- Ribbing
- ribbed on body, slightly at eye
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- flat, sometimes intermediate, rectangular to slightly truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 74-90 mm
- Over colour
- salmon pink flush
- Russet type
- stellate russet dots and occasional patches
- Flesh colour
- white, green coreline
- Fruit height
- 55-70 mm
- Skin texture
- greasy
- Flesh texture
- firm, fine
- Ground colour
- yellowish
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Culinary
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Width
- 83.04 mm
- Crunch
- crumbly
- Height
- 66.31 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- low-medium
- Over colour pattern
- washed out/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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