The World of Apples

Apple varieties, France

Calville Rouge d'Hiver

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

Thought to have possibly originated in Brittany, France. Recorded in about 1600. Fruits have rather soft, moderately juicy flesh with a somewhat sweet flavour.

Family tree

Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.

  • 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 de Saintonge

Offspring in the atlas

9 varieties in the atlas descend from Calville Rouge d'Hiver.

Sources

  1. Calville Rouge d'Hiver (accession 1947 - 305), 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 (late october); the other names.
  2. 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 Rouge and Reinette Franche, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).

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