la Nationale
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by M. Roux at Sainte-Romain-au-Mont d’Or, Rhone, France. It first fruited in 1871. Fruits have firm, sweet flesh.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- la Nationale France, by 1871
- Parent Calville Rouge d'Hiver France, by about 1600
- Parent Calville Rouge d'Hiver France, by about 1600
- Parent Reinette Franche France, by 1540
- Parent Reinette de Saintonge
- Parent Cusset
- Parent Calville Rouge d'Hiver France, by about 1600
Sources
- la Nationale (accession 1947 - 056), 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.
- 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 parents, Calville Rouge d'Hiver and Cusset, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
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