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Calville des Femmes
type: Cooking, Pie
identification: Large, round to round flattened. The base colour is greenish yellow flushed dull orange on the sun exposed face and marked with abundant russeted lenticels. The eye is small and partly open, set in a medium deep, medium wide, ribbed basin. The stem is medium long and slender, set in a deep and narrow, russeted cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, firm and crisp.Juicy, sharp, mild flavour.
uses: A cooking well suited to pies and tarts; sweet, golden colour and holding its shape.
origins: Found in the garden of Comice Horti, Angers, France 1850
cultivation: Vigorous, upright spreading spur bearer.
cold storage: Keeps up to four months.
harvest: During the second part of the second period Problems: ababab
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 15
ploidism: Self sterile. Group D. Day 15,
cold storage weeks: 16
harvest period: 2
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