The World of Apples

Apple varieties, France

Fleuritard Rouge

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

Received 1950. From France.

Sources

  1. Fleuritard Rouge (accession 1950 - 160), 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).
  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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