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Reinette de Plouerc
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1948 - 784
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1948 from France. Fruits have tender, fine, creamy white flesh with a subacid and slightly sweet flavour.
- Accession name
- Reinette de Plouerc
- Flowering time ›››
- 11th May10% flowering
16th MayFull (80%) flowering
24th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late October 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- very weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium-high 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- washed out/solid flush 1
- Russet
- very low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Coarseness
- fine 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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