Calville de Saint-Sauveur

Calville de Saint-Sauveur, painted for the US Department of Agriculture. U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705. Source; public domain.

Origin: Saint-Sauveur, Oise, France, about 1839
Parentage: Chance seedling
Uses: Cooking
Picked: October, in Brogdale, Kent (the National Fruit Collection)
Skin: Large, narrow conical fruit; ground colour green yellow; over-colour red
Flesh: White
Ploidy: Diploid
Also called: Calleville de Saint-Sauveur; Calvill St. Sauveur; Calvill von St. Sauveur; Calvilla di San Salvatore; Calville Saint Sauveur; Calville St.Sauveur; de Saint-Sauveur; E Erloser Calvill; Erloser-Calvill; Kalvil Sen-Sover; Pomme de Saint Sauveur; Pomme de Saint-Sauveur; Pomme Saint Sauveur; Pomme St. Sauveur; Reinette Saint-Sauveur; Saint Sauveur; Saint Sauveur Calvill; Saint Saveur; Saint-Sauveurer Calville; St. Saveur

The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it¹:

Originated in about 1839 as a chance seedling found on the property of M. Despreaux, Saint-Sauveur, Oise, France. Introduced by nurseryman Jamin. Cooks well.

Sources

Calville de Saint-Sauveur (accession 1947 - 309), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (mid october); 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 ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).

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