Applevariety
Calville des Femmes
Also known as Calleville des Femmes +4
Calleville des Femmes · Frauen Calvill · Frauen Calville · Frauencalvill · Kalvil zhenskii
A cooking apple with white flesh and yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; mildly tart, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Comice Horticole, Angers, France
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour BrownBackground colour Yellow
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- largeWidth 97.00 mmHeight 79.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Calville des Femmes began
Recorded origin
Comice Horticole, Angers
France
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 97.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 79.00 mm
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Calleville des Femmes, Frauen Calvill, Frauen Calville, Frauencalvill, Kalvil zhenskii
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.