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Reinette Thouin
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Originated in the garden of M. Gillet de Laumont, Beaumont, near Montmorency, France and named after Andre Thouin. First fruited in 1822. Fruits have firm, crisp, coarse, greenish white flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Bonne Thouin, Renet Tuen, Thouin's Reinette, Thouins Reinette
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Truncate conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 51.00mm 2
- Width
- 57.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Russet
- low-medium 2
- Greasiness
- Weak 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Coarseness
- coarse 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
1952 - 186
- Accession name
- Reinette Thouin
- Flowering time ›››
- 10th May10% flowering
15th MayFull (80%) flowering
23rd May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late October 1
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019