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Apple varieties, France

Normandie

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

Thought to have originated in France, although received by the National Fruit Trials from Switzerland in 1948. Fruits have soft, dry, greenish white flesh with an insipid flavour.

Sources

Normandie (accession 1948 - 330), 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).