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Apple varieties, France

Fenouillet de Ribours

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

Found in the garden of La Rouairie, Maine-et-Loire, France. Distributed by M. de la Perraudiere. It first fruited in 1840. Fruits have fine, white flesh with a sweet, subacid, aniseed perfumed flavour.

Fenouillet de Ribours
Where Fenouillet de Ribours came from.

Sources

  1. Fenouillet de Ribours (accession 1948 - 045), 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 (mid october).
  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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