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Leonie de Sonnaville
type: Dessert
identification: Medium size. Flattened round to squat conic. The base colour is yellowish green over which there is a bright red wash with striping most noticeable at the faded edges. The eye is medium size and partly open set in a medium deep funnel shaped basin. Light coloured, small russeted lenticels are scattered across the surfaces and most visible on the coloured face. The stem is short and set in a medium deep, open funnel shaped cavity with a greenish russet spreading out onto the shoulders and sometimes down onto the face of the apple.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish. Juicy, sweet and aromatic. Keeps for two months in cold storage.
uses: Dessert
origins: — Cox s Orange Pippin x Jonathan, P. Sonnaville, Institut Voor de Veredeling van Tuinbouwgewassen Wageningen, Netherlands, prior to 1974
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, weeping tree. Ready for harveststarting in the first half of the FOURTH period.
pollination group: E
pollination peak: 18
ploidism: Self sterile. Group E Day 18
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