Applevariety
Lombarts Calville
Also known as Lombarts Kalvill +2
Lombarts Kalvill · Lombartscalville · Witte Winter Lombartscalville
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, raised in 1906; sweet, mildly tart, firm and soft. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Zundert, The Netherlands
Released 1911
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- Firm
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin texture greasyBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- cream
- Shape
- intermediate to tall, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 67-74 mmFruit height 58-68 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges strongly ribbed at eye and on body
Origin & family
Where Lombarts Calville began
Recorded origin
Zundert, The Netherlands
Netherlands
- Released
- 1911
Lombarts Calville’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Lombarts Calville
Zundert, The Netherlands
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Calville Blanc d'Hiver → Lombarts CalvilleParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, subacid
- ribbing
- strongly ribbed at eye and on body
- synonyms
- Lombarts Kalvill, Lombartscalville, Witte Winter Lombartscalville
- parentage
- Calville Blanc d'Hiver x Unknown
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- intermediate to tall, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 67-74 mm
- flesh colour
- cream
- fruit height
- 58-68 mm
- skin texture
- greasy
- flesh texture
- firm, fairly coarse, soft
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.