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Apple varieties, France

Jacques Lebel

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

Raised in about 1825 by Jacques Lebel at Amiens, France. Fruits are crisp, juicy and acid.

Family tree

Offspring in the atlas

Brettacher Samling × Reinette de Champagne; Germany, 1900

Where Jacques Lebel came from.

Sources

Jacques Lebel (accession 1949 - 110), 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 (early september); the other names.