Fruit Tree Database

Fruit Type

Apple

Variety/Cultivar

Calville Blanc d'Hiver

Fruit Description

A greenish/yellow apple that can develop a red blush, notable for their lumpy appearance.

Common Uses

Mainly known for their excellent sweet/tart flavour and fine grained texture as a cooking apple. Commonly used for tarte tatin because they keep their shape when cooked. (much like Golden Delicious), but can also be used to make excellent pie filling or apple sauce by cutting them into small pieces for cooking. Have very high levels of Vit C.

Origin

A very special heritage apple, developed in France in the 1600s, the name translates to Calville's white winter.

Pollination

Pollination group 3, so likely to be pollinised by others in the same group, e.g. Akane, Bonza, Cox's Orange Pippin, Crofton, Red Delicious, Fuji, Gala, Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, Jonathan, Kingston Black, Lady Williams, Pink Lady, Spartan, Sturmer Pippin.

Chill Hours

Blossom Time

Harvest Time

+10 days Red Delicious.

Production Notes

Spur bearer.

Disease Susceptibility

Moderately resistant to black spot.

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