The World of Apples

Apple varieties, France

Tardive de la Sarthe

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

Believed to have originated in France.Produces a bittersweet cider.

Sources

  1. Tardive de la Sarthe (accession 1989 - 086), 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 other names.
  2. Ploidy level (descriptor 115159), study MALUS.PLOIDYDETERMINATION.2008, USDA Agricultural Research Service, GRIN-Global, 2008. Supports: its ploidy, diploid, measured by flow cytometry on accession PI 589689 of the USDA apple collection at Geneva, New York.

All 201 varieties from France