Chataignier

Chataignier, painted by Royal Charles Steadman in 1925 for the US Department of Agriculture. Royal Charles Steadman. U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705. Source; public domain.

Origin: Normandy, France, by 1200
Parentage: Parents unknown
Uses: Dessert
Picked: October, in Brogdale, Kent (the National Fruit Collection)
Skin: Medium, flat fruit; ground colour yellow; over-colour red, striped
Flesh: White; firm-very firm
Flavour: Fairly sweet, subacid
Ploidy: Diploid
Also called: Castagnola; Chastaignier d'Hiver; Chataigne de Leman; de Castegnier; de Chastignier; de Chataignier; Frauen Rotlicher; Frauen-Rotacher; Kashtan; Kastanien Apfel; Kastanienapfel; Maltranche; Maltranche Rouge; Martranche; Martrange; Martrange Chataignier; Matrange; Matrange Rouge; Pomme de Castignier; Pomme de Chataignier; Pomme de Chatinier; Pomme de George; Violette; Winter Kastanien Apfel; Winter Kastanienapfel

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

Originated from Normandy, France. It was known in 1200. Fruits have firm, white flesh with a fairly sweet, subacid flavour.

Sources

Chataignier (accession 1947 - 165), 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.
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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