Applevariety
la Nationale
Also known as Bernardin +5
Bernardin · Bourget · Cusset a Fruits Rouges · Cusset Rouge · Deesse nationale · Natsionalnoe
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and whitish-green skin, round in shape; sweet and firm. Picked in late October.
Origin · Sainte-Romain-au-Mont d'Or, Rhone, France
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- sweet
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour almost covered dark brownish red flushBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- white, veined green
- Shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 74 mmFruit height 62 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges sometimes ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern dots
Origin & family
Where la Nationale began
Recorded origin
Sainte-Romain-au-Mont d'Or, Rhone
France
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet
- ribbing
- sometimes ribbed at eye and on body
- synonyms
- Bernardin, Bourget, Cusset a Fruits Rouges, Cusset Rouge, Deesse nationale, Natsionalnoe
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 74 mm
- over colour
- almost covered dark brownish red flush
- russet type
- dots
- flesh colour
- white, veined green
- fruit height
- 62 mm
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
- flowering time
- late
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.