Violette
syn. Black Apple, Calville Rayee d'Automne, De Quatre- Gouts, de Violette, Des Quatre-Gouts, Framboise, Framboox Apple, Gros Pomme Noire d'Amerique, Grosse Pomme Noir d'Amerique, Grosse Pomme Noire d'Amerique, Pomme de Violette, Pomme Violette, Quatre Gouts, Reinette des Quatre-Gouts, Reinette Violette, Violet, Violet Apple, Violette Apple, Violette de Mars, Violette de Quatre Gouts, Violette de Quatre-Gouts, Violette des Quatre-Gouts, Violetter Apfel, Winter Veilchen
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in France. Known in the early 1600s. Fruits have firm, fine, white flesh with a subacid and slightly aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 1st May (10%) · 6th May (full) · 13th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Oblong
- Width
- 59.00 mm
- Height
- 58.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Pink
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- high-very high
Source · National Fruit Collection
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