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Apple varieties, France

Cravert Rouge

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

A more highly coloured sport of Cravert. Originated in Cher, France. Fruits have a sweet subacid flavour.

Family tree

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

Cravert Rouge France
- Sport of Cravert France, by about 1870

Where Cravert Rouge came from.

Sources

Cravert Rouge (accession 1947 - 237), 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 (late october); the other names.