Lombarts Calville
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in 1906 by P. Lombarts, Zundert, The Netherlands. It was introduced by the Lombarts family in 1911. Fruits have firm, fairly coarse, soft flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Lombarts Calville Netherlands, 1906
- Seed parent Calville Blanc d'Hiver France, by 1598
- 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 Franche France, by 1540
- Parent Reinette de Saintonge
- Parent Calville Rouge d'Hiver France, by about 1600
- Seed parent Calville Blanc d'Hiver France, by 1598
Sources
- Lombarts Calville (accession 1949 - 182), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the parentage; 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.
- 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).