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Reinette de Versailles
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Thought to have originated in about 1730 in Champagne, France. Fruits have rather soft, dry, fine, creamy white flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1947 - 465
- Accession name
- Reinette de Versailles
- Flowering time ›››
- 3rd May10% flowering
8th MayFull (80%) flowering
15th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early October 1
- Size
- medium-large 1
- Shape
- Flat globose 1
- Ribbing
- weak 1
- Crown
- very weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- absent 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- washed out 1
- Russet
- very high 1
- Crunch
- crisp 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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