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| CORNE DU PERIGORD (PERIGORD HORN) |
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| Origin: |
Ayen Canton in Corrèze. Popular variety mostly cultivated in the North and North-East of the Dordogne Department and in the South-West of Corrèze. |
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| Tree |
| Vigour: |
Very good, giving an excellent rusticity. |
| Bearing: |
Erect, tree easily shaped around trunk but has a tendency to defoliate. |
| Fruiting: |
Slow. |
| Budding: |
Quite late (on average, two days before Franquette, 20 April – 5 May in Dordogne). |
| Productivity: |
Good to quite good on old trees, but fruiting is slow. |
| Diseases: |
Quite sensitive to anthracnose. Average sensitivity to bacteriosis. |
| Pollinating agents: |
Meylanaise or Ronde de Montignac. |
| Flowering period: |
Male flowers 29 April – 13 May.
Female flowers 15-30 May. |
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| Fruit |
| Form: |
elongated shape, elliptical to rectangular |
| Size: |
average |
| Maturity period: |
quite late to late |
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| General assessment |
| Because of its vigour, the Corne variety is very well adapted to most shallow soils within its cultivation area. This tree is however declining, despite its rusticity, because of slow fruiting, insufficient size of fruit, low breakage yield and difficulties in extracting the kernel caused by a very hard shell and highly lignified internal partitions. |
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