Transparente de Croncels

Transparente de Croncels, painted by Royal Charles Steadman in 1918 for the US Department of Agriculture. Royal Charles Steadman. U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705. Source; public domain.

Origin: Croncels, Troyes, France, by 1869
Raised by: Ernest Baltet
Parentage: Calville Blanc d'Hiver × Duchess of Oldenburg Found from SNP data by Muranty and others (2020), which does not tell which bore the seed
Uses: Cooking
Picked: September, in Brogdale, Kent (the National Fruit Collection)
Skin: Large, broad globose conical fruit; ground colour whitish yellow; over-colour orange
Flesh: Cream; soft, coarse
Flavour: Sweetish and slightly aromatic
Ploidy: Diploid
Also called: Apfel aus Croncels; Apfel von Croncels; Croncels; Croncels Transparent; Croncelské; Cronselska; Cronselske; Durchsichtiger aus Croncels; Eisapfel aus Croncels; Eisapfel von Croncels; Glasapfel; Glasapfel aus Croncels; Kronselska; Kronselskoe prazrachnoe; Kronselskoe Prozrachnoe; Olivka Kronselska; Oliwka Kronselska; Pomme de Croncels; Prozracinoe Kronseliskoe; Rosen Apfel von Croncels; Transparent de Concelles; Transparent de Conseils; Transparent de Croncelles; Transparent de Croncels; Transparent von Croncels; Transparentapfel; Transparentapfel von Croncels; Yellow Transparent

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

Raised by Ernest Baltet and introduced in 1869 by Baltet FrFres, Croncels, Troyes, France. Fruits have soft, rather coarse, dry, creamy white flesh with a sweetish and slightly aromatic flavour.

Family tree

Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.

Transparente de Croncels France, by 1869
- 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 Duchess of Oldenburg Russia, 1700s or earlier

Offspring in the atlas

Transparente de Bois-Guillaume × Saint Germain; France, about 1895

Where Transparente de Croncels came from.

Sources

Transparente de Croncels (accession 1948 - 683), 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 (early september); 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 Blanc d'Hiver and Borowitsky, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).

Family tree

Offspring in the atlas

Sources

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