Applevariety
Adersleber Calville
Also known as Aderslebener Calville +9
Aderslebener Calville · Aderslebener Kalvill · Aderslebener Kalvill-Samling · Adersleber Calvil · Adersleber Calvill · Adersleber Kalvil · Adersleber Kalvill · Calville d'Adersleben · Kalvil Aderslebenskii · Kalvil Aderslebensky
A dessert apple, truncate conical in shape, green-yellow skin, white flesh. Picked in mid-September. Raised around 1870. Sweet, mildly tart and firm.
Origin · Adersleben, Saxony
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour PinkBackground colour Green yellow
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- largeWidth 85.00 mmHeight 60.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges strong
Origin & family
Where Adersleber Calville began
Recorded origin
Adersleben, Saxony
Germany
Adersleber Calville’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Adersleber Calville
Adersleben, Saxony, Germany
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 85.00 mm
- height
- 60.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- strong
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Aderslebener Calville, Aderslebener Kalvill, Aderslebener Kalvill-Samling, Adersleber Calvil, Adersleber Calvill, Adersleber Kalvil, Adersleber Kalvill, Calville d'Adersleben, Kalvil Aderslebenskii, Kalvil Aderslebensky
- parentage
- Calville Blanc d'Hiver x Gravenstein
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Pink
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.