The World of Apples

Apple varieties, France

Canada Blanc de la Creuse

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

Thought to have arisen at Creuse, France. Described in 1947. Fruits have softish flesh with an insipid flavour.

Canada Blanc de la Creuse
Where Canada Blanc de la Creuse came from.

Sources

  1. Canada Blanc de la Creuse (accession 1948 - 225), 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 ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).

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