The World of Apples

Apple varieties, France

Gros Croquet

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

Thought to have originated in the Ardennes, France. It was described in 1947. Fruits have tender, fine flesh with a sweet, subacid and perfumed flavour.

Gros Croquet
Where Gros Croquet came from.

Sources

  1. Gros Croquet (accession 1948 - 312), 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); the other names.
  2. Ploidy level (descriptor 115159), study MALUS.PLOIDYDETERMINATION.2008, USDA Agricultural Research Service, GRIN-Global, 2008. Supports: its ploidy, triploid, measured by flow cytometry on accession PI 131104 of the USDA apple collection at Geneva, New York.

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