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Apple varieties, France

Estiva

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

Raised in 1957 at INRA, Angers, France. Fruits are crisp, juicy and slightly acid with some perfumed flavour.

Family tree

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

Estiva France, 1957
- Seed parent Usta Gorria
- Pollen parent Rogers McIntosh United States, before 1930
  - Sport of McIntosh Canada, 1811

Where Estiva came from.

Sources

Estiva (accession 1973 - 104), 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 september).