The World of Apples

Apple varieties, France

Reinette Clochard

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

Originated in France. Known in the mid 1800s. Fruits have fine, yellowish flesh with a sweet, subacid, perfumed flavour.

Family tree

Offspring in the atlas

  • Charden × Golden Delicious; France, 1959
  • Cloden × Golden Delicious; France

Sources

  1. Reinette Clochard (accession 1948 - 236), 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); the other names.
  2. 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).