Applevariety
Calville Rouge du Mont d'Or
Also known as Calville du Mont d'Or
Calville du Mont d'Or
A cooking and dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, tart, mildly tart and soft. Picked in early September.
Origin · Champagne-au-Mont-d'Or, France
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- acidsubacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid to acid
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour very variable amount of dull red flushBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- variable, flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 72-80 mmFruit height 60-63 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on body, sometimes prominentRusset pattern occasional russet patches
Origin & family
Where Calville Rouge du Mont d'Or began
Recorded origin
Champagne-au-Mont-d'Or
France
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, subacid to acid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body, sometimes prominent
- synonyms
- Calville du Mont d'Or
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- variable, flat, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 72-80 mm
- over colour
- very variable amount of dull red flush
- russet type
- occasional russet patches
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 60-63 mm
- flesh texture
- soft, rather coarse
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.