Adersleber Calville
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
A German variety raised in about 1870 at Adersleben, Saxony by Lichtard. Fruits have firm, fine, white flesh with a subacid, sweet flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Adersleber Calville Germany, about 1870
- Parent Calville Blanc d'Hiver France, by 1598
- Parent Calville Rouge d'Hiver France, by about 1600
- Parent Calville Rouge d'Hiver France, by about 1600
- Parent Reinette Franche France, by 1540
- Parent Reinette Franche France, by 1540
- Parent Reinette de Saintonge
- Parent Calville Rouge d'Hiver France, by about 1600
- Parent Aport Russia, late 18th century
- Parent Calville Blanc d'Hiver France, by 1598
Sources
- Adersleber Calville (accession 1947 - 457), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the parentage; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (mid september); the other names.
- Using whole-genome SNP data to reconstruct a large multi-generation pedigree in apple germplasm, Hélène Muranty and others, BMC Plant Biology 20:2, 2020. Supports: its parents, Calville Blanc d'Hiver and Alexander, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
