Applevariety
Calville de Maussion
Also known as Calleville de Maussion +3
Calleville de Maussion · Calville Maussion · Kalvil Mossion · Maussion's Calville
A dessert apple with white flesh and yellow skin, flat-round in shape; sweet, mildly tart and aromatic. Picked in early October.
Origin · France
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Texture
- fine, compact
- Flavour
- sweet and subacid, aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed pinkBackground colour pale green
- Flesh
- yellowish white
- Shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- large
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed in eye basin
Origin & family
Where Calville de Maussion began
Recorded origin
France
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet and subacid, aromatic
- ribbing
- ribbed in eye basin
- synonyms
- Calleville de Maussion, Calville Maussion, Kalvil Mossion, Maussion's Calville
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- over colour
- flushed pink
- flesh colour
- yellowish white
- flesh texture
- fine, compact
- ground colour
- pale green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.