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Apple varieties, France

Gros-Hopital

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

Triploid. Originated long before 1864 at Seine-Inferieure (Maritime), France. Fruits have crisp flesh with a sweet, subacid flavour.

Where Gros-Hopital came from.

Sources

Gros-Hopital (accession 1950 - 153), 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); the other names.